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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 17, 2015

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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the more birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest! less
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for more over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. less
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Advanced MS PowerPoint 2010 Workshop


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Powerpoint 2010. Topics include using transitions, animations, more etc. Please note: Bring a flash drive with an MP3 or WMA audio file, and an MP4 or MOV video file if you wish to practice embedding media. less
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Bridge Club


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new more friends. All players welcome. less
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Mac Computers for Beginners


Learn the basics of using a Mac computer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier more on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar. less
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour


On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory more Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes. less
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. less
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of more choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. less
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12:20 pm
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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. less
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Citizen Cartography: Building a Virtual Atlas of New York


Help NYPL build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the set more of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps by overlaying digital images of historical maps onto a contemporary digital map through a process called georectification, or "warping" maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas. less
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central more Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. less
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Art on Screen Film Series


To Dance Like a Man Directed by Sylvie Collier, 2013, 58 minutes - Identical triplets with a single passion: more to dance. This is the true story of brothers César, Angel, and Marcos, students at the prestigious National Ballet School of Cuba. Aged eleven, they are the only known trio of identical boy dancers in the world. They are equally talented and share the same passion for ballet. Excitement builds as the triplets win the chance to perform and they prepare for their debut on stage. In Spanish with English subtitles. ,br> Dreaming Chavela Directed by Raphael Amargo, 2013, 52 minutes - At the age of 35, artist Rafael Amargo feels that his muses have deserted him, something that many artists go through in their careers. He feels a need to rekindle the magic of the “art fairy.” This launches him on a journey that takes him to the very source of inspiration, across seas and mountains and roads, until he finally arrives at the refuge of the real protagonist of the film, Mexican singer Chavela Vargas (1919-2012), a leading figure in ranchera music. His goal is to give her a letter from poet Federico García Lorca, for whom both have enormous admiration. In Spanish with English subtitles less
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Google+ Workshop


A social networking platform for gmail users which gives easy access to Google apps such as Google drive, more docs, etc. Come learn about this great social networking system and how it can be beneficial to you and your Google community less
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Photoshop CS6 for Beginners


Learn how to enhance photos using the #1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this more class you will get acquainted with the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to minpulate images to your desire. less
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3:00 pm
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Film | Charles Martin Smith's Dolphin Tale 2 (2014): Fishy Sequel


Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman. A group of sympathetic humans help a dolphin more with a damaged tail in this sequel to the surprise 2011 hit. 107 minutes less
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Jihye Min, Flute 4 p.m. Marion Ravot, Harp 6 p.m. Patrick Hodge, French Horn 8 p.m.
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Jeffrey Lang, Horn


Jeffrey Lang is the associate principal horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra and is currently on the faculties more of Bard College, Temple University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Formerly principal horn of the Israel Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra, he has also performed as guest principal horn of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the New York City Opera Orchestra, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. less
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. less
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5:30 pm
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Film | John Sturges' Oscar Nominee The Great Escape (1963): WW2 Drama


Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred more of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. less
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6:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Guitar


Carlos Barbosa-Lima (born 17 December 1944) is a Brazilian guitarist born in São Paulo. He devotes most more of his time as a recitalist on international concert tours and regularly appears as a soloist with numerous major orchestras. less
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience more of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness — Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment . less
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Camp as a Space of Political Membership


Drawing on an ethnography of informal refugee camps for Kosovo forced migrants in Italy, this talk argues more for a resident-centred understanding of camps and camp-like institutions in refugee studies. It invites to a closer examination of the everyday lives in/of camps and the embodied practices and claims of citizenship that inhabitants perform. It discuss the concept of campzenship as a tool for capturing both the spatiality of membership and the specificity of contemporary camps. Speaker Dr. Nando Sigona is a sociologist with over ten years research and teaching experience in migration, refugee and ethnic studies. He is a Birmingham Fellow and lecturer at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham. less
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | 2015 Challenges in Photography and Video


Moderator: Elisabeth Biondi Panelists: - Vince Aletti, photography critic (The New Yorker, Photograph, more Aperture, Artforum, W, Document) - Chris Boot, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation - Brian Clamp, Director, ClampArt - Allen Frame, photographer, teacher (Pratt, SVA, ICP), board member of the Camera Club of NY - Andrea Meislin, Director, Andrea Meislin Gallery - Charles Traub, founder and Chair of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media program at SVA less
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Photographer Brian Rose discusses his book Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013


This illustrated lecture tells the story of almost unprecedented urban transformation, from wasteland more to epicenter of art and fashion. The area is dear to Club Free Time, as that's where monthly editions of Free Time (former name of Club Free Time) were printed. Coming there in the middle of the night to bring the hard copy to the presses was a rather dangerous affair! less
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6:30 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Divine/Intervention by E. Dale Smith


The man who was Divine, the rotund drag queen in John Waters' films, on the last night of his life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Bill Berkson / Matt Longabucco


Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. He moved to Northern California in 1970 and now divides his more time between San Francisco and New York. He is a poet, critic, curator, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught art history and literature for many years. He has been a corresponding editor for Art in America since 1988 and has contributed to such other journals as Artcritical, Artforum, Aperture, and Modern Painters. His recent books include: Snippets (Omerta, 2014); For the Ordinary Artist with a collection of his art writings (BlazeVox, 2011); Not an Exit with drawings by Léonie Guyer (Junge Garden Books, 2011); Repeat After Me with watercolors by John Zurier (Gallery Paule Anglim, 2011); Lady Air (Perdika, 2010); Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2009); and BILL with drawings by Colter Jacobsen (Gallery 16 Editions, 2008). Coffee House Press published a new collection of his poems, Expect Delays, in November 2014. Matt Longabucco is the author of the chapbook Everybody Suffers: The Selected Poems of Juan García Madero (O’Clock Press, 2014). Other work has recently appeared in Capricious, The Brooklyn Rail, and Parkett. He is also a cofounder of Wendy’s Subway, a twenty-four-hour library, workspace, and meeting place for writers, artists, and readers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. less
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Poetry Reading | The Poets of Graywolf Press


With: Tom Sleigh, Saskia Hamilton, Matthea Harvey.
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Workshop | Twitter Basics Workshop


Learn about the online social network Twitter.
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Lecture | Universalism and Racism


With Jean-Frédéric Schaub (Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France). more This presentation examines the contradictions that emerged between universalist ambitions and three historical processes: categorization, segregation, and extermination. In studying the societies of the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern era, the question arises of the incompatibility between, on the one hand, Saint Paul's message ("There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians [3-28]"), and rules of segregation founded upon an assertion of natural inferiority and the inability of people to change, on the other. less
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Word for Word Poetry Reading


Featuring the Poets of Graywolf Press: Tom Sleigh, Saskia Hamilton, Matthea Harvey.
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Master Class | Master Class: Brian Del Signore, Digital Recording Tools


Brian Del Signore is the Principal Percussionist and Associate Principal Timpanist of Houston Symphony, more which he joined in 1986. Del Signore performs continually in Houston, and has toured the UK and Europe, and performed in Moscow and Singapore with the Houston Symphony. less
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Melanie Young discusses her book Fearless, Fabulous You: Lessons on Living Life on Your Terms


Cancer survivor Melanie Young (Getting Things Off My Chest) makes a return visit with her new book.
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Author Reading | Michael Meyer discusses his book In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China


Michael Meyer’s account of the time he spent living and teaching school in the rice-farming community more of Wasteland, in China’s rural Northeast, weaves together history, politics, and personal lives in a vivid drama of loss and change. less
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Concert | College Composer Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Student Composers' Concert
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Performance | The Hari Kondabolu Show: Brainy Comedy


Comedian Hari Kondabolu begins his final semester as artist-in-residence by interviewing some of his more comedy friends in front of a live audience. Kondabolu will also perform new material and stories developed during his residency. Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who has performed on the Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He was most recently a writer and correspondent for the Chris Rock-produced FX show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Kondabolu released his debut stand-up comedy album Waiting for 2042 in March 2014. less
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Virtuoso Chances: An Electro-Acoustic Portrait


Program: Weixler and Chuang Wetterleuchten Virtuoso Chances - return home (video and multichannel electro-acoustic more composition) Andreas Weixler Ashley Ave (piano and spectrasonic) Se-Lien Chuang of which your soul was constituted (cello, multichannel playback and live electronics) Se-Lien Chuang Impromptu for Yang-Chin (video and multichannel electro-acoustic composition) Andreas Weixler Idem eadem pro quattuor Premiere (4 performers, minimal music) Se-Lien Chuang Nowhereland Premiere (piano, bass clarinet, multichannel playback and live electronics) Chuang and Weixler incidere Premiere (for e-guitar, multichannel electroacoustics and live electronics) Andreas Weixler for Pi (multi-channel electro-acoustic composition) Weixler and Chuang momentum nyc Premiere (all performer improvisation and interactive audiovisual) The Austria-based artist duo Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler has specialized in audiovisual realtime processing with a special emphasis in contemporary instrumental composition and electroacoustic composition. The concert will include a variety of compositional work: electroacoustic multichannel music, art-video, minimal music, contemporary composition for acoustic instruments with electronics and improvisation within audiovisual live processing. less
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Four Films by Man Ray with New Avant-Rock Soundtracks


Experience an unforgettable evening of contemporary and classic silent film screenings accompanied by more live music. The avant-rock band SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan) handpicked silent films by the legendary Man Ray, and then created original scores for these performances. Their curated soundscape will breathe new life into these vintage shorts. Four films by Man Ray, selected by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan): Retour a la Raison (1923) Emak Bakia (1926) Les Mysteres Du Chateau Du De (1929) L'Etoile De Mer (1928) less
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8:00 pm
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