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48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Other | Ice Skating in the Heart of the City


Bring your own skates and skate for free in the heart of the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 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 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. less
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9:30 am
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Lecture | Ecology and Management of Shore Zones in the Upper Hudson River Estuary


A seminar on scientific issues related to the environmental quality and resource management of the New more York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary, sponsored by the Hudson River Foundation in cooperation with the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program. Hear Dr. David Strayer from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. less
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10:30 am
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint more 2003. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow. less
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Lecture | Japanese Youth in Transition: Work, Marriage, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan


A Brown Bag Lecture entitled "Japanese Youth in Transition: Work, Marriage, and Inequality in Contemporary more Japan" with Hiroshi Ishida, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo; Visiting Fellow, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University. less
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the more wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini


An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final more days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. It is the unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant. less
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes more Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID. less
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Piano works by Bach, Beethoven, Faure


Yiding Niu, piano. Program J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in A-flat Major in BK1, BWV 862 more L. V. Beethoven Sonata Op. 31, No.3 G. Fauré Theme and Variations in C-sharp Minor, Op. 73 E. Rautavaara Sonata No. 2, “Fire Sermon" less
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12:30 pm
Free

Video | 39th Dance on Camera Festival: Billy Cowie Retrospective


Award-winning Scottish video artist/composer and master illusionist Billy Cowie is on hand to present more his fourscreen installation including Men in the Wall. 3D glasses allow the viewer to enter this world of four men, whose framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. Also featuring Cowie’s Ghosts in the Machine and Tango de Soledad. less
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
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1:00 pm
$6

Reading | Langston Speaks! A Langston Hughes Read-In


Come one, come all to this non-stop, five-hour community read-in honoring the poet laureate of Harlem, more Langston Hughes on his birthday! Groups and individuals are invited to sign-up to read selections from Langston's works in the Schomburg's atrium that bears his name. less
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: On & Off the Res’ w/ Charlie Hill. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Health Support Workshop


The NYC Department of Health will be available to offer health information and answer your health-related more questions. less
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1:30 pm
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Workshop | Beading Techniques Demonstration


With Cody Harjo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Ice Skating in the Sky


Bring your owns skates and skate for free on this fifth-floor terrace-turned-ice rink.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Health Information Online


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn to find consumer health information online, including doctors' more credentials, hospital information, drug side effects, conventional and alternative medical treatments of diseases, diets, weight loss, nutrition and exercises, and how to evaluate these websites. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Ira Gold, double bass


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist more of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory. less
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Challenge of Community Governance of Resources, with Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom


Ostrom is appointed as Distinguished Professor, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and more Senior Research Director at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (which she co-founded in 1973), at Indiana University in Bloomington. At Arizona State University, Ostrom is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity. In 2009, Dr. Ostrom received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Ostrom's research as having "brought the topic from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention ... by showing how common resources - forests, fisheries, oil fields, or grazing lands - can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies." less
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience more of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment. Classes are taught by experience volunteers. Come join instructors Aldo Alvarez and Shail Pandya. Share relaxation techniques! less
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Winners of the First Small Works Juried Competition


The winners of the Small Works Juried National Competition, as chosen by distinguished juror Richard more Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. They initiated this competition to recognize those photographers who still enjoy the discipline of creating small masterpieces in an era when large photographs - very large - are in vogue. The competition's rules stated that the height and width of entries could not exceed six inches in each direction. After viewing more than 600 images submitted by 95 photographers from across the country. Also showing are works by Larry Davis, Dwight Primiano, Gary Duehr, and Myra R. Hafetz. less
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Resume Structure and Formatting


Learn how to use Career Cruising’s resume builder to put together an effective resume in no time!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | The Scavenger's Daughter: part African-American family drama, part murder mystery


Written by Gary Earl Ross. Directed by Petronia Paley. The play is part African-American family more drama, part murder mystery. When middle-aged Alan, Brian, and Connie Pickett discover their father has Alzheimer-s, they find themselves in a virtual war with their mentally unstable stepmother. The play opens with a murder suicide, which Detective Maxine Travis senses is really just a murder. The play unfolds through police interrogations and a series of flashbacks.. Come and enjoy entertaining new plays by provocative playwrights paired with a glass of wine! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Carnivorous Virility: Becoming Dog in Pre- and Post-Modernity


In this lecture, Professor Carla Freccero argues for a queering of temporality that would undo our nationally more circumscribed and periodized fields of literary study in order to work through figures that haunt texts across historical eras. Her case study involves cynanthropy, the merger of human man and dog; it takes as its starting point the Columbian New World encounter, from reports of dog-headed cannibals to accounts of the devouring dog as the ubiquitous weapon of Spanish colonizers; and concludes with the attack on Diane Whipple by two Presa Canarios in San Francisco in 2001. Freccero is professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, where she has taught since 1991. Trained in continental Renaissance Studies, she is the author of Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais; Popular Culture: An Introduction; and Queer/Early/Modern. less
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Evgeny Morozov discusses his book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom


“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in more Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the internet, authoritarian governments are effectively using the internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. Journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov argues that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, we may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder—not easier—to promote democracy. less
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Julianne Davidow discusses her book Outer Beauty Inner Joy: Contemplating the Soul of the Renaissance


This illustrated talk on the recently published book explores the connection between this philosophy more and the art of the Italian Renaissance. We know the Italian Renaissance was an explosion of art and beauty in Western history, but many of us are not familiar with the philosophy that inspired it. Mixing present day values with the teachings of the ancients, Italian philosophers forged an inclusive, synergetic philosophy--one that believed the role of the artist and the making of art held an important place in society. less
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Leading German novelist Martin Mosebach


Leading German novelist Martin Mosebach, recipient of Germany’s prestigious Georg Büchner Prize, sits more down with critic Liesl Schillinger of the New York Times Book Review to discuss his work. There will be short readings in German and English. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poetry Forum: Ange Mlinko & Dan Chiasson


Poets and critics Ange Mlinko and Dan Chiasson will read from their new books, and discuss, writing poems more and writing about poetry. Ange Mlinko is the author of three collections: Shoulder Season; Matinées, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and Starred Wire, a National Poetry Series Award winner and James Laughlin Award finalist. She writes a regular column on language for The Nation, and in 2009, she received the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism from the Poetry Foundation. Dan Chiasson is the author of three collections of poetry, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon; The Afterlife of Objects and Natural History, and a book of criticism, One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America. He serves as a poetry editor of The Paris Review. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Whiting Writers Award, Chiasson teaches at Wellesley College. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Science Fiction Book Discussion Group


This group discusses science fiction they have recently read. Bring your imagination and creativity - more and make your presentation truly out of this world. The group may also discuss science fiction-related topics, including books, comic books, films, television programs, and conventions. less
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | The Best President You Never Heard Of: Calvin Coolidge


By Amity Shlaes. Ms. Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations. more She has been a syndicated columnist for the last decade, with her column carried by Bloomberg. Her most recent book is The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Part of series of annual Hayek Annual Lecture in Economics, which is named for Austrian-British economist and political philosopher F. A. Hayek (1899-1993), who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. less
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6:30 pm
Free

Reading | Translator Roger Sedarat and writer Harold Aram Veeser read from their work


Writers and graduating students from the four MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn more College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for readings of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at the Graduate Center. Join poet and translator Roger Sedarat and writer Harold Aram Veeser for an evening of cross-campus, cross-genre readings. less
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Reading | An Evening with Esopus


The semiannual arts publication presents an evening of performance and screenings related to its current more issue, ESOPUS 15: TELEVISION, which explores the medium of TV through contemporary artists′ projects, critical and visual essays, interviews, and facsimile reproductions of production artifacts. less
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Author Reading | Frank Brady discusses his book Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall


Brady, who has written biographies of Orson Welles and Hugh Hefner, tackles the life of a chess legend.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Yuri Dhara.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Screening | Josh Fox's Documentary Gasland (2010), Followed by a Q&A with the Director


A screening of the film followed by a Q&A with director Fox. Learn about the current and real threats more to our city's water supply. 107 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Meditation Skills for Everyday Life


Introducing a style of meditation and related skills that help you to be more Present in all your daily more activities. A highly practical and experiential approach that not only gives you an increased sense of peace, stillness and inner silence, but also brings focus, mental stamina and tangible boost in vitality. Matteus Levell shares his wealth of knowledge from over 18 years experience in meditation and consciousness studies. less
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Performance | Monsters in the Wood: Chapter-by-Chapter


Author and performer Brad Lawrence will perform all eighteen chapters (one a month) of his work Monsters more In The Wood, finally answering the question – What’s so funny about murder, poverty, and drug addiction? Every month will also feature members of the BTK Band and special guest performers. less
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Rana Dasgupta reads from his book Solo


Winner of the U.K.'s Commonwealth Prize, Dasgupta's second book is bold, enigmatic, and thought-provoking. more After his pragmatic father crushes Ulrich's passion for music, he turns to chemistry, a subject that takes him to Berlin, "the capital of world science," during the ebb of the Ottoman Empire. less
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Author Reading | Ree Drummond reads from her book The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels


The popular and award-winning blogger shares her latest book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars more of today. less
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Whitney Port discusses her book True Whit


The MTV reality star discusses her new book in which she shares personal stories, beauty and fitness more secrets, and advice for girls looking to live their lives with style. She will not be signing memorabilia. less
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Concert | Student Recital - Glencora Davies, oboe


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by more a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories. less
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Open Mic | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents more in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak. less
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9:00 pm
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Concert | Zamboni! Musical Improv


In the great tradition of Rogers & Hammerstein and Hall & Oates, Zamboni! takes a single word suggestion more and creates an entire musical from it. With made-up choreography that rivals Busby Berkeley and collective vocal power that rivals "We Are the World", Zamboni! will rock you out of your seats and make you feel things you've never felt before. less
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of more Manhattan. less
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Performance | Bring It! Stand-Up Open Mike


Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, more Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win "joke of the night" and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday. less
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