37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, September 13, 2010
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.
The hottest new vehicles and motorcycles. Vehicles will be showcased throughout the indoor lobbies and ...
more >> outdoor areas. Attendees are invited to check out the latest vehicles and sit behind the wheels of the latest models from across the automotive spectrum. From ultra high-end exotics to the latest alternative fuel vehicles, this annual event showcases all that is hot on two and four wheels.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Want a quiet setting where you can work on a computer? Do you have questions about computer use, programs, ...
more >> devices, or software? Stop by the Laptop Lab. A staff member will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about using a computer. You are welcome to use a library laptop or your own laptop.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
A program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding ...
more >> provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Park is staffed with trained walking instructors to lead walks.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
A program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding ...
more >> provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Park is staffed with trained walking instructors to lead walks.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from ...
more >> members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free ...
more >> of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
The fall garden is all about color. Join horticulturist Lucas Pistone on a tour as the last plants of ...
more >> the season start blooming alongside summer’s roses. Highlights include the lily pond area, where the water lilies and canna will be in bloom and the fruit of the lotus on display. The magnolia trees there will also be of interest, due to the quality of their ripe, red fruit. The tour is a wonderful opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Larry Ham tours and records with many of today's top jazz artists, performing throughout the United States, ...
more >> Europe, and in Japan, Russia, and West Africa. He is also a noted composer, and leads his own bands.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
New York City-based Voxare String Quartet formed in 2007 and has since received critical praise for its ...
more >> inventive programming, technical prowess, attention to detail, and passionate performances. Recently making its debut at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Voxare is a frequent performer at Bargemusic in New York City where the quartet has been quartet-in residence for two summers. Voxare has been featured live on Soundcheck on NPR. Individually, Voxare members have performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and orchestrally with the Cleveland Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic. The four musicians have amassed a number of prizes at international competitions.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A showing of the short films on the Native American food that changed the world: The Gift, Na Florentina, ...
more >> La Cumbia del Mole and Corn Is Who We Are. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
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 each Monday afternoon.
2:00 pm
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.
If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar ...
more >> for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it.
This exhibition features works made by psychiatric patients at the Maison de Santé Saint-Paul in the ...
more >> French town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Saint-Paul is known by art historians the world over as the hospital where Vincent Van Gogh committed himself in the late 19th century, and the place where he made some of his most recognized works. With a selection of recent paintings and testimonials from present-day Saint-Paul patients, the exhibition documents the enduring role that creative expression plays in the healing process of artists and non-artists alike.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
With Antonio Banderas.
A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's ...
more >> left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities. They talk to a female lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's path keeps crossing each other's in a very complicated and confusing manner.
90 min.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar ...
more >> for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it.
The versatile jazz drummer brings along both his bands, Bossa Brasil and Mauricio de Souza Group, to ...
more >> offer a wide range of Latin and American styles, as he does on his new album.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Experience the best of the 2010–2011 New York City performing arts season. This is an after-work performance ...
more >> featuring artists from NYC's premiere classical music, jazz, dance, and opera institutions. Performances to be announced. Tables, chairs and picnics are welcome.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding ...
more >> provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Park is staffed with trained walking instructors to lead walks.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Exploring your family history? Learn how to trace your roots in this ...
more >> introduction to genealogy. Discover library and web resources for genealogical research.
O’Brien’s other writings include Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. ...
more >> He is the editor-in-chief of the Library of America. Moderated by Robert Polito.
Artist Daniel Lefcourt lectures on Knoebel. Born in 1975, Lefcourt lives and works in New York. His recent ...
more >> exhibitions include shows at Taxter & Spengemann, New York (2010); Sutton Lane, London (2009); Gallery Luis Campaña, Berlin (2009); and Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz, Zurich (2007).
Capture with this visual presentation a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history ...
more >> by discovering the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Join the reading group for a lively discussion of this month's selection, a story of love and death during ...
more >> World War I.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Fantasy and reality collide as the book's principal characters--two lovers--meet, part and reunite, time ...
more >> and again, at different stages in life and in landscapes both familiar and exotic. Tuten, who has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing, is the author of Tintin in the New World, among other fiction.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Chang is the current director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She been the winner of, among other awards, ...
more >> Guggenheim, Stegner and Capote fellowships for her fiction. Her latest novel is about authorship, the lines between mentor, friend and hindrance, and the troubles of early artistic promise.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
With Pilates Betterist Kara Martin. Level: Open/Beginner.
Dress comfortably: tights, yoga pants, work ...
more >> out clothes are appropriate. Mats will be available for use but please bring a towel to give extra cushioning for the spine.
The historian illuminates the life, music and cultural impact of the musician who exploded onto the scene ...
more >> in 1961, remaining a vital force for nearly 50 years.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Moth storytelling favorite Adam Wade has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories ...
more >> for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off. The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, will follow. Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while music and lyrics are improvised to turn their stories into songs.
Editor's Pick
Widely regarded as the “Bible of feminism,” Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) is a ...
more >> complex interdisciplinary analysis of the Western notion of “woman” and the power of sexuality. Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, The Second Sex is as relevant today as it was sixty years ago. In this panel discussion, translators Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier will describe their efforts to render The Second Sex in a manner faithful to its context in existentialist philosophy, their struggle to publish the work, and its reception by the critics.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A judge on America's Next Top Model, the photographer shares his supposed formula for revealing inner ...
more >> beauty, looking great and feeling better.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Program:
Piano Sonata No. 2, op. 210 (2007) (New York premiere)
Sonata: Three Poems from Nature, op. ...
more >> 217 (2008) (World premiere)
Elegy Variations, op. 97 (1988)
Desperate Measures, op. 102 (1989)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in the form of six odes, op. 223 (2009)
Saxophone Quartet, op. 163 (2001)
Hit the Deck, op. 80 (1984)
With: Marjean Olson, Maria Asteriadou, Virginia Perry Lamb, and Dmitri Palilov, piano; Rene Jolles, violin; Susan Jolles, harp; Christopher Lamb, Chris Nappi, Jay Ritchie, Sean Ritenauer, Kyle Zerna, percussion; and The New Hudson Saxophone Quartet (Paul Cohen, soprano saxophone; Avi Goldrosen, alto saxophone; David Demsey, tenor saxophone; Tim Ruedeman, baritone saxophone).
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
A high visibility, low-tech forum that supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. ...
more >> Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
To celebrate the release of their unique project, Animal Collective's Tare and Perez will join moderator ...
more >> Andy Battaglia in a discussion about how they see and hear—and work to blur the boundaries between the two.
Since burbling up from the New York underground around the turn of the 2000s, Animal Collective have become one of the most adventurous and important musical acts at work today. Their sound is singular—at once yawping and soothing, synthetic and human—and their influence is immeasurable in the realm of art-rock and more.
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required