42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, September 27, 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.
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
You will be familiarized with title and menu bar, highlight, backspace key, insert text, bold, underline, ...
more >> save and exit.
10:15 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
Editor's Pick
The edited, annotated diary of Carter is filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships ...
more >> with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Born in Tokyo, Kuni Mikami came to the United States in 1975. He continues to play for many of the top ...
more >> big bands around including the Lionel Hampton Orchestra; Duke Ellington; Cab Calloway; Illinois Jaquet; and George Gee Orchestra.
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
Laughter Yoga is a revolutionary idea that can change your personal outlook on life. No special clothes ...
more >> needed– nor yoga mat, just the willingness to laugh on purpose.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The school hosts Nestor Kirchner, the Secretary-General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) ...
more >> and former president of Argentina. Kirchner will discuss UNASUR’s progress and how the organization can address South America’s unique challenges and opportunities. Founded in 2008, UNASUR is a transnational organization of South American states, focusing on integrating and promoting development throughout the region.
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
Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand contemporary moral ...
more >> and ethical failings—splashed across today's headlines—that have destroyed individual lives as well, bringing communities, nations, and the global economy to the brink of collapse?
Gurcharan Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata. Each major character in the epic embodies a significant moral failing or virtue, and their struggles evince familiar emotions of anxiety, courage, despair, remorse, envy, compassion, vengefulness, and duty. Das explores the Mahabharata and compares the successes and failures of the poem's characters to those of contemporary individuals, many of them highly visible players in the world of economics, business, and politics. In every case, he finds lessons for everyone faced with ethical and moral dilemmas in today's complex world.
Das is the author of India Unbound, which has been translated into many languages and filmed by the BBC. He writes a regular column for six Indian newspapers, including the Times of India, and occasionally for Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. His other books include the novel A Fine Family; a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm; and as a playwright, an anthology, Three English Plays.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Volpe has worked in a wide variety of musical contexts while developing a unique approach to jazz guitar ...
more >> -- a warm and lyrical romanticism that illuminates with intensity and exquisite taste.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A concert of new music presented by Broadway composers and lyricists and sung by Broadway vocalists. ...
more >> Directed by John Znidarsic.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Darren Staloff is a professor of early American history. He is the author of a variety of articles and ...
more >> essays and two books, The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts and Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join exhibition curator Valerie Steele for a tour of the special exhibition. Staged in a dramatic mise-en-scene ...
more >> evoking the cityscape of 21st-century Tokyo, this exciting exhibition features approximately 100 ensembles
that represent Japanese fashion in all its radical creativity. Tour will be followed by a signing of the companion book.
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
A variety of yoga classes taught by some of the area’s most enlightened instructors. The philosophy ...
more >> of yoga, which aims to unite all aspects of the individual – body and mind and soul – to improve health, happiness and tranquility is deeply beneficial on its own or as a complement to other wellness programs.
Renaud González has been a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition and Latino USA, and her articles and ...
more >> essays have appeared in The Nation, Ms., The Progressive, Los Angeles Times, La Opinión, RUMBO, and The Texas Observer. Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen.
Svetlana Mintcheva, director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), hosts a ...
more >> double-feature screening of Destricted (2006)−a collection of short films by visual artists Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Cecily Brown, Larry Clark, Marilyn Minter and Richard Prince, among others, all exploring the boundaries between pornography and art−and Larry Clark's Ken Park (2002), which has had limited distribution due to its controversial sexual content. Between the screenings, Mintcheva will moderate a discussion with Destricted curator Neville Wakefield and several of the filmmakers.
Sports fans and trivia lovers unite for a fascinating, illustrated talk as the author presents little ...
more >> known and famous facts about sports of all kinds in New York from colonial times to today. He has compiled a record of cultural, economic, political, and social events, some are of transient importance, others of lasting significance, but all illuminate the city's fascinating history.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn how to create spreadsheets for your information using the Microsoft Excel software. Basic computer ...
more >> skills required.
Editor's Pick
A groundbreaking new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first installment in the composer’s ...
more >> epic four-part cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.
The Opening Night of The Metropolitan Opera will be shown on seven giant video screens.
Aproximately 2,000 seats provided, with additional standing room available.
6:30 pm
free tickets required
A groundbreaking new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first installment in the composer’s ...
more >> epic four-part cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.
The Opening Night of The Metropolitan Opera will be shown on seven giant video screens.
Aproximately 2,000 seats provided, with additional standing room available.
6:30 pm
free tickets required
Explores Jewish history of the neighborhood, the building's architectural significance, as well as the ...
more >> future of this building and its community.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Yu's second book is incredibly difficult to describe. It's a book about family, regret, and time/dimensional ...
more >> travel. It's wistful, smart, and more beautiful than any book that references Star Wars has any right to be.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The author discusses her searing work of history with Josh Rubenstein of Amnesty International.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Pasi Sahlberg, the Director General of Finland's Center for International Mobility and a professor of ...
more >> education at the University of Helsinki, will speak on the evolution of the Finnish school system and its lessons for other nations. Following several years as a classroom teacher in Finland, Sahlberg worked as a policy adviser for the Finnish Education Ministry in Helsinki, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, and the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Sahlberg is a widely recognized authority on the Finnish educational success story and has spoken to audiences around the world about it.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...
2010 marks the centennial of the birth of visionary choreographer Alwin Nikolais. Nikolais pushed beyond ...
more >> the boundaries of contemporary dance. A pioneer of multimedia, Nikolais's prolific imagination shaped 20th-century performance and continues to inspire and astound artists and audiences today.
With: Anna Kisselgoff, Writer/Critic; Alberto Del Saz, Artistic Director of The Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
Phyllis Lamhut, Choreographer, Original Member of the Nikolais Dance Theatre; James Seawright, Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, Princeton University.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hosted by columnist Kate Walter, including Miriam Chaikin, Barbara Garson, Catherine Revland, Marilyn ...
more >> Schwartz, Griselda Steiner, Alison Armstrong, Hedy O’Biel and Anne Shapiro.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Drafts are a non-equity ensemble of actors who are relatively new to the New York theater scene. ...
more >> The mission of The Drafts is to develop new plays. Like their namesake, The Drafts are a group of versatile actors from largely varied backgrounds and experiences. They are the most talented New York actors you've never heard of!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The divide between the U.S. and Mexico isn't an unbending line. The border is porous - with people crossing ...
more >> and recrossing daily for work, school, family, shopping. Hendricks documents the intermixing of cultures, problems, and experiences in a honest look at this misunderstood region and for a discussion of reforms to immigration and drug policies that would better serve us all.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Alenikoff is also founder of Eden's Expressway. The celebration is also for the 20th anniversary of the ...
more >> Performance Journal, as well as the release of PJ #37.
Performances by Ze'eva Cohen, Deborah Jowitt, Jennifer Monson & Yvonne Meier, Tere O'Connor, Wendy Perron, Regina Rocke, and Judith Sanchez-Ruiz.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required