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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 9, 2010?

37 free events take place on Friday, April 9 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 9 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, April 9, 2010

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Video | Creative Time's 44 1/2: Video Art on an Outdoor Screen


At 44 1/2, Creative Time’s presentation of video art on MTV’s outdoor, gilded screen, will showcase the work of groundbreaking performance artist Marina Abramovic. Opening concurrently with her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time’s presentation includes Light/Dark (1977), Rest Energy (1980) and Dissolution (1997). Ambramovic has influenced other artists for more than three decades. One of the videos will play at the top of the hour, every hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 am
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Conference | Economics of Climate Change


U.S. and international academics, government officials, and policy analysts will join to study the economic issues associated with carbon emission, climate change, and emission regulation. The conference will offer important lessons on how to enact effective climate change policy in light of the United States’ fragile economy and the post-Copenhagen tensions between developed and developing countries. The program includes keynote speeches by Hirofumi Uzawa of Tokyo University and Ernst Ulrich von Weizacker, former chairman of the German Parliament’s Environmental Committee. Participants include representatives from the European Commission and the Obama Administration; Tariq Banuri, director of the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development and member of the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change; Alfred Greiner of the University of Bielefeld; Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University; and Franz Wirl of the University of Vienna. New School faculty includes Lopamudra Banerjee, Edward Nell and Willi Semmler from The New School for Social Research and Michael Cohen of the Graduate Program of International Affairs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


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

Workshop | Mouse Basics


Learn how to hold, click, and move the mouse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talk | Geographical Practices and Uneven Development


Recently there has been a resurgence of land or site-based artistic practices, in which themes of site, territories, borders, and boundaries intersect with ecological, political and juridical discourses. This talk explores the relationship of these “geographical practices” to the material conditions of global capitalism, specifically looking at how a counter-model to the dominant, celebratory accounts of geographical expansion in contemporary art might be generated through David Harvey’s concept of “uneven development.” Presented by Janet Kraynak, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art:: Erika deVries' Beginning Accordion


The artist invites you to join in the public performance of being a beginner. Knowing nothing about music, deVries hosts Beginning Accordion. Erika deVries is a photography, performance and video artist in Brooklyn. She has lectured and exhibited internationally including: Halifax University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Los Angeles Center For Photographic Studies; Point of View Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Gemachtschule Universitaet, Kassel, Germany. She recently had a solo exhibition at LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Lecture | Torture and Civilization: Lessons from the Spanish Inquisition


A talk by Irene Silverblatt, Duke University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:45 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | James Hill's Oscar-Winning Born Free (1966): Leonine Weepie


Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lioness can return to a free life. 96 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Chamber Music Informal


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Jazz, Roots, Samba with Rogerio Boccato


A Percussion Master Class/Performance with Erik Charlston, Vibes and Marimba; Felipe Salles, Saxophone and Flute; Mark Soskin, Piano; Richard Sarpola, Bass; Vinicius Barros, Percussion; and Rogerio Boccato, Percussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Other | Meet the Best Scandinavian Cartoonists Working Today


Come on down to meet, from Norway, Lars Fiske and Espen Holtestaul; from Denmark, Ib Kjeldsmark and Johan F. Krarup; and from Sweden, Sofia Falkenham. Each of these great cartoonists will be bringing along some of their own work, and unique Scandinavian art work will be produced live at during the signing and auctioned off through a raffle! This is an extraordinary opportunity to meet these international creators and check out their work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | 68th Annual First Run Film Festival


First Run, New York’'s oldest continuous film festival, premieres the work of some of the country’'s top student filmmakers. This year’'s annual spring showcase will feature 113 advanced films, videos, multimedia, and animation projects. The films and videos compete for over $50,000 in cash awards presented by the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation. In a departure from past years, First Run will announce the annual Craft Award winners at the daily screenings; each screening will have its own theme, title, and subtitle (3:30 – 9:30 pm blocks only); and the King finalists will be announced at the end of Festival at the Awards Ceremony and Screening. Screenings are open to the public. Screenings are at 3.30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. The four days of screenings will culminate in the Wasserman Awards Ceremony featuring the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards and screening of the winning films.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:30 pm
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Screening | Classic Tex Avery Cartoons


The humor, characters and sensibility of Avery’s cartoons are unmistakable. Swing Shift Cinderella (pictured) 1945. 7 min. Red Hot Riding Hood 1943. 7 min. Little Rural Riding Hood 1949. 6 min. The Cat That Hated People 1948. 7 min. The Three Little Pups 1952. 7 min. Field and Scream 1953. 7 min. Program 41 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Ephemeral Vienna: Film and Conversation


These films offer a vivid and often puzzling and surprising insight into everyday urban life in Vienna - the modernization and urbanization of the 1910s-1930s, the aftermath of World War I and the achievements of 'Red Vienna'; the rise of Nazism, and the post-war reconstruction of Vienna and its rebirth as a Central European metropolis. Historian Siegfried Mattl, artists Gustav Deutsch and Hanna Schimek, and members of the research team will offer contextual materials as well as an artistic and critical insight into "Cinematic Vienna". Moderation: Michael Loebenstein (Vienna).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Tendencies: Poetics and Practice


This series of talks by poets Dodie Bellamy, Eileen Myles and Kevin Killian, curated by Tim Peterson and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Angela Hanks' Big Tex: A Cowboy Finds His Voice


Big Tex, a 52-foot-tall cowboy, looms above the State Fair of Texas announcing events and greeting passers-by with a friendly “Howdy.” Willie James, a school bus driver, has always admired Big Tex and when the opportunity arises for him to become the voice behind the man, he plans to rise to the challenge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Bard Thesis Group Exhibition


Featuring: Holly Bynoe, Tara Cronin, Dillon DeWaters, Ryan Easter, Sam Falls, Waqas Farid, Michael Itkoff, Tuomas Korpijaakko, Pierre Le Hors, Roisin Morris, Liz Sales and Alejandra Ugarte Bedwell.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Blues/Jazz Band: Alex Levin Trio


Originally from Philadelphia, Levin has performed as a leader and a sideman for the last fifteen years. He has played with multiple vocalists and instrumentalists since returning to New York in 2001. He has appeared at clubs throughout the city, and can most frequently be found leading his own trio at such clubs as Kavehaz, Detour, Rue B and Night and Day. Besides leading his trio, he performs regularly with vocalists Ayana del Valle and Heather Moran. He has composed numerous pieces, and has arranged music for top vocalists, including Paulette McWilliams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | Disappearing Act II: A Showcase of Current European Cinema


This year's program presents 17 contemporary European films that have made a name for themselves on the festival circuit and with critics, but are largely unknown to American audiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Dalton Baldwin, Voice


Renowned piano accompanist and vocal coach Dalton Baldwin will give a master class to young classical singers including Sun Young Chang (Soprano), Young Gyun Jo (Tenor), Byung Soo Cho (Bariton) and more. Baldwin has collaborated with many of today's foremost singers, including Elly Amelling, Arleen Auger, Jessye Norman, Theresa Berganza, Frederica von Stade and Jose Van Dam. His outstanding partnership with baritone Gerard Souzay has taken him on tours throught the musical world. Together, they have made over fifty records, many of which have garnered international awards. Baldwin has recorded the complete songs of Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Roussel and Poulenc. He is in constant demand for master classes in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mixed Media: Thomas Kapielski's nothing to see, nothing to say, nothing to sell


An opening and slide show presentation in which Thomas Kapielski gives a survey of his work. The artist will be introduced by Christian Rattemeyer, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art. Kapielski, born in 1951, lives and works in Berlin. He is an artist, writer, musician and lecturer. His work–a parodistic, comical and poetical commentary to contemporary literature and art–has been known and highly appreciated in Germany since the 1990s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | New York Classical Theatre performs Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark


New York Classical Theatre creates a new experience for theater enthusiasts with their production of Hamlet using its signature staging style, panoramic theatre. Audience members will enter the world of the play as they follow the actors from place to place.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Stephen Schettini discusses his book The Novice


Schettini took his Buddhism so seriously that after eight years as a monk, he quit his robes, his teachers, his fellow monks and his hard-earned fluency in Tibetan, slamming the door on privileged monastic life. Now, thirty years later and teaching mindful reflection to secular, stressed-out consumers, he makes a careful distinction between Buddha and Buddhism. He’ll talk about the difficulties of balancing faith with open enquiry, and the challenge of transplanting the Buddha’s message in the West.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Student Recital: Alford Elliott, saxophone



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Film | Tim Burton’s Academy Award-Winning Beetlejuice (1988): Less-Than-Scary Ghosts


With Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin. A recently deceased small-town couple are required to haunt their own house for 125 years, but when they are unable to frighten the insufferable urbanites who move in, they hire a “bio-exorcist” to reclaim their home. 92 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Neal Kirkwood, Piano


Premiere of original Kirkwood composition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | New York Philharmonic bassist David Grossman performs


This regular series offers featured performers with the Philharmonic in discussion with WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon. Tonight's guest is the orchestra's own fabulous bassist, David Grossman, who offers The Bass of Both Worlds: Classical and Jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | First Stages: NYU Performers in Works by NYU Composers


From the Programs in Vocal Performance and Music Composition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Orion String Quartet


The Orion String Quartet, featuring violinists Daniel and Todd Phillips, violist Steven Tenenbom and cellist Timothy Eddy, gained immediate attention in the classical music world when its founding members, each with distinguished solo and chamber music careers, formed the ensemble in 1987. They have been consistently praised for the fresh perspective and individuality they bring to performing a broad range of repertoire, thus making them one of the most sought-after ensembles in the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Student Productions: Loyalties / The Wound of Love / Tape


The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University presents: Loyalties by Murphy Guyer; a scene from Kathryn Grant's The Wound of Love; and Stephen Belber's Tape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | E.J.C. Calvert's St. Louis Threw A Party and the Whole World Came: A Family's Unraveling


William Lemp, a successful beer manufacturer, plans to entrust his thriving business to his children upon his retirement. Before he can complete the transition, an unexpected event sends Lemp’s once-prominent family spiraling into tragedy, until they all become mired in rumor, scandal, and death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
Free

Concert | Queen Aaminah: Neo-Soul Singer


Queen Aaminah rules over thick caramel beats, fretless bass grooves, and her own languorous voice, which has been featured in the company of Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews, and countless others. Catch her doing tracks from her impressive, self-produced debut album Love Reigns.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital: Alicia Clemens, voice



   New York City, NY; NYC
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Open Mike | No Shame Open Mic Performance


Audience, arm yourself. A performance evening unlike any open mic in New York, No Shame grants performers five minutes to blast beyond the normal duties of pleasing, amusing, and entertaining - in fact, performers are encouraged to risk their audience's displeasure, alienation, boredom, confusion, and rage. You, No Shame participant, are invited to read somber fiction onstage, to take a nap, to take off your clothes, to make a sandwich, to describe graphic sexual acts. "Dare to be brilliant, dare to fail." Sign-up at 11:30pm, show at midnight.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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