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28 free events take place on Monday, October 31 in New York City.
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28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 31, 2011

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Other | Ice Skating in the Heart of the City


Manhattan's first and only free-admission ice skating rink. Back for it's seventh season, it is one of NYC's most treasured winter destinations. Whether you enjoy a day of family skating, share a romantic evening spinning under the stars, celebrate the holidays at a company bash, or join us for the many special events and ice activities this season, ice skating truly offers a bit of magic for everyone. Bring your own skates and you can rent a pair.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Talk | Learn about the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Senior Art-Making Activity: Lukasa Memory Boards


A special art-making workshop. Museum educators will lead participants in creating a work of art for sharing personal stories, inspired by Lukasa or memory boards. Lukasa are hand-held wooden objects used by the Luba peoples from the Democratic Republic of Congo to illustrate political concepts or historical events.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:45 am
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Screening | Food, Celebration and Day of the Dead


A showing of the short films Corn Is Who We Are, La Cumbia del Mole and Las de Blanco/Dressed in White. Start times are 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm.
   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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Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


A class for older adults who enjoy exercising for good health and mental well being.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Cell Phone Buying Guide 2: Smartphones


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Phones aren’t just phones anymore. Learn about the latest cutting-edge smartphones, their various operating systems, the required data plans, and the many available applications (apps!) that can turn a good smartphone into a great one.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to MS PowerPoint


Learn how to create a slide show presentation using text and images. Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Film | Jim Mickle's Mulberry Street (2006): Zombies of New York


Ever wonder what Soho would look like if it were taken over by bloodsucking rat people? Then don’t miss the annual screening of the sublimely horrifying, locally produced cult classic. 75 min.
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Computer Databases


Prerequisite: Intro to Comp. & Internet 1 or equivalent, New York Public Library card. Learn how to search for magazine and newspaper articles in The New York Public Library’s collection of Electronic Resources and receive an overview of databases for biographical information, encyclopedias, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Songbook: Broadway's Future


A concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists, sung by Broadway vocalists. Presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, directed by John Znidarsic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Michael Krondl discusses his book Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert


This illustrated talk explores the world’s great dessert traditions, from ancient India to twenty-first century Indiana. The author, an award-winning cooking instructor, food writer, and former chef, embraces the pleasures of dessert while elucidating the uses—social, political, religious, and even sexual—that societies have found for it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Parade | Halloween Parade


All Those in Costume are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of Different Types of Music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation in the Nation’s Most Wildly Creative Public Participatory Event in the Greatest City in the World.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Korean Cinema: Kang Woo-Suk's Moss (2010)


Kang Woo-Suk has made more blockbusters than any other Korean director and this movie, stuffed with stars, was yet another massive critical and commercial hit for him. A disgraced cop travels to the remote village where his estranged father has just died of “natural causes” and rapidly uncovers a conspiracy that reaches back decades and encompasses hundreds of people. An epic thriller, this unrelenting flick grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. 163 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Real Characters: Special Halloween Show


Real Characters is a monthly storytelling and performance show that combines some of New York's best storytellers with its funniest, most innovative comedians and writers. So, some of it's true, some of it feels more than true, and most of it is mostly funny. Featuring in October: Elna Baker (This American Life, author of The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance) with a story about Halloween Nick Vatterott (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Montreal Just For Laughs Festival) performing a little mad scientist standup Ted Travelstead (Vanity Fair, co-author of SEX: Our Bodies Our Junk) presenting video evidence of his time as a child actor in Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice George Gordon (New York Underground Comedy Festival) telling the story of watching himself survive a liquor store robbery Matt Mercier (The Moth) speaking about his time living in the basement of Edgar Allen Poe's New York home (for real)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sonia Taitz reads from her book In the King's Arms


Taitz, a writer for The New York Times and The New York Observer, presents her new novel, the story of the daughter of Holocaust survivors and her love affair with a nobleman from an anti-Semitic English family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Other | Stargazing in the Park


You do not need to bring a telescope. They will provide a 15" Obsession Telescope to look through. It is an amazing view of the heavens. You'll see planets, stars and nebulae! Weather permitting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | The Contradictions of “Combined Development”: Some Reflections on Environmental Crises in India


Over the last two decades, the spectacular growth of the Indian economy has been integrally related to deepening forms of inequality and heightened forms of direct and indirect forms of state violence. Hyperconsumerism, in its various guises, by a small yet sizeable "middle class," land grabs by a variety of national and global conglomerates (especially mining companies), and the forced relocation of millions of poor and indigenous rural dwellers, are some of the highlights of the current development model. This paper seeks to explore some of the contradictions in this model by analyzing multiple environmental crises (ranging from natural resource privatization and depletion to enclosures and denial of livelihood rights) that have emerged. It argues that efforts by the state and capital to "manage" such crises not only uphold the basic tenets of a "growth" model but also deepen conditions of conflict and violence borne by the poor majority. Speaker: Ananth Aiyer, University of Michigan–Flint. A reception will precede the meeting at 6:00 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Composers' Concert


Nils Vigeland, Coordinator. Music by the Composition Faculty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Piano, Violin and Cello Works by Mozart and Dvorak


Program: MOZART Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 493 DVORÁK Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 87 With: Menahem Pressler, Piano; Jeffrey Cohen, Piano; Lucie Robert, Violin; Nicholas Mann, Viola; and David Geber, Cello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Dinu Ghezzo 70th Birthday Concert


Dinu Ghezzo received his education in conducting, music education and in composition at the Romanian Conservatory in Bucharest (1964 & 1966), and subsequently earned a PhD. in composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1973. He has concluded a thirty-two years career at New York University, as a professor of music and director of the Composition Studies. Dr. Ghezzo remains as a Professor Emeritus at New York University, also teaching at Lehman College (CUNY).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Judith Sanchez Ruiz & JSR Company / Kota Yamazaki / SKOTE / Megan Mazarick


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun: A Dream Deferred


The Graduate Acting Program in association with the Department of Design for Stage and Film present the Class of 2013's production of Hansberry's play about a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Composers' Works


New works by Composition students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Fresh Comedy Show


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this FREE stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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