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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 29, 2010?

78 free events take place on Thursday, April 29 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 29 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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78 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 29, 2010

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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
Free

Park Walk | “Views from the Past”


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Intermediate to MS Excel


An introduction to the basic features of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program designed for the Windows environment. Topics include entering data & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets. Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Workshop | Teach Yourself: Computer Self-Study


Hands on using wireless laptops. Discover free computer tutorials on the web. Search NYPL's Catalog for books, DVDs and eBooks to help you learn computer programs and concepts on your own. Find resources on Word, Excel, Office 2007, the Internet, typing and other topics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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 of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Poetry Reading | Poem in Your Pocket Day


Celebrate poetry in style at the seventh annual Poem in Your Pocket Day. Hear the next generation of poets tell you what’s on their mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Introduction to Internet Email


Sign up for your own email address, learn how to send and receive mail as well as other email basics. Class will be given on laptop computers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Concert | Guillermo “Memo” Acevedo: Latin Percussion


Acevedo was host of The Latin Beat radio show from 1987-1995. He has performed with artists like Joe Cuba, Cachao and Stephen Stills. He was a member of the Drummers Collective. Guillermo is the Music Director of the Latin/Brazilian Jazz Ensembles (since 2002) and the Brazilian Batucada Ensemble (since 2003). He will be demonstrating his prowess on the line of Latin percussion instruments and answering questions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Outdoors public art exhibition


Students in ten New York City public middle schools from all five boroughs are getting ready to present their public art pieces—school lunchroom tables transformed into colorful works of art that address important social issues in their communities and the world—and display them in the largest student art exhibition in the history of NYC parks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | State Failure and Regional Containment: The Case of Central Asia and Afghanistan


A talk by George Gavrilis. Why do some states assist a failed state in their midst while others undermine it? This talk explores the strategic role that states play towards the recovery of a failed neighbor. The talk is based on the author’s recent work in the field in Central Asia and with international organizations. It will focus on the case of Afghanistan as a way to explore broader hypotheses on state failure and regional containment. Gavrilis is author of The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries. His areas of research include domestic and international institutions, conflict, borders, security, and state failure. His regions of expertise include the Middle East, Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Balkans where he has conducted field research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks”


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Afternoon Music: Christine Marie Heath, soprano


Heath has sung with several theatre companies including The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players at City Center, The Ivoryton Playhouse, Shreveport Opera, Sarasota Opera, Toledo Opera, Natchez Music Festival, Ashlawn Opera Festival, and Ohio Light Opera. Internationally, she has performed a Broadway concert series with Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy; a Sondheim revue at La Gran Theatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain; and the title role of Evita sung entirely in German at The Musik Theater Chur in Switzerland.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$2 suggested donation

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.
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1:00 pm
$6

Film | Peter Yates' Breaking Away (1979): Biking to the Future


With Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Jackie Earle Haley. A comedy that tells the tale of four Indiana high-school graduates looking for a future in their small Midwestern college town. Rivalry develops between them and the city's arrogant college students that culminates in an exciting bicycle race, the University's "Little 500." 101 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Spring into Action! With a Stay Well Exercise Session


Join staff from the N.Y.C. Dept. for the Aging, Health Promotion Services unit, for a Stay Well exercise session featuring low-impact exercises appropriate for all ability levels. No special clothing or equipment is required. Also, find out about additional services of the Health Promotion Services unit. Participants must sign an activity waiver.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Talking With Pictures


There are a million and one ways to tell a story, and twice as many stories to tell. Whether it's a comedy, romance, noir, horror, or sci-fi, the look of a film has a major role in determining and defining the tone. But does the visual style define genre or does genre dictate visual style? The collaboration of directors and cinematographers results in the ability to capture and convey narrative through the use of shadow, darkness, and light. The gasp of fear or a feeling of nostalgia can be achieved by a gel on a lens or the framing of the scene. Join writer/director Lee Isaac Chung (Lucky Life), writer/direct Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky), Jon Kilik (producer of Babel and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), cinematographers Nancy Schreiberand (Every Day) and Lance Acord (Where the Wild Things Are, Lost in Translation), and other filmmakers and cinematographers in a discussion that proves there is always more than meets the eye. Moderated by Filmmaker Magazine's Brandon Harris. Thursday, April 29, 2:00 pm @ SVA Theater 2
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom”


Take a walk around the lands dominated by Belvedere Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics


Literature lives and grows out of literature, as writers develop their own voices by learning from, or reacting against, those who went before them. For the third year in a row, the Great Works Program asks each of the participants in this event to select a classic work from those being studied in the program and discuss its resonance within his or her own life and work. With Aleksandar Hemon, Major Jackson, Yiyun Li, Marcel Möring, and Martin Solares; moderated by Esther Allen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Saving and Backing Up Data


Hands on using wireless laptops. Develop strategies for saving regularly and learn how to back up data using flash drives and other methods.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums' Work-in-Progress Unseen Dances


Unseen Dances are dances to be experienced by blindfolded audiences. Dancers reveal themselves and define speed, space, location, distance, architecture, and bodily effort through air currents, touch, and sound. The audience is placed within the action and periodically moved, shifting their relationship to the space and one another. Each dance is site- and audience-specific.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Researching with E-Resources: Catalogs


This introduction to research concentrates on the new integrated Library Online Catalog as well as basic navigation of WorldCat, an online catalog of materials held in libraries worldwide.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Staged Reading | PEN World Voices Festival: I Come from There - New Plays from the Arab World


This British Council/Royal Court Theatre project introduces five emerging playwrights from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria, featuring full readings of new plays plus discussions of these playwrights’ extraordinary journeys.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Birdwatching | Birding Tour


Discover the varieties of birds that call the Park home during the migratory season with guided tours.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Other | Chess for Beginners and Intermediate Players


A Beginning and Intermediate Chess Program for Adults. Show off your best moves against other chess fans! Or simply learn from other chess fans! Whether you're a chess master or just starting out, come for some board time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Director Neil Jordan discusses his film Ondine


Join Jordan (The Crying Game, The Brave One) as he discusses his new fantasy-drama. Starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda, the film tells the story of an Irish fisherman who discovers Ondine in his fishing net and believes her to be a mermaid.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Open Studios



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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Think Pink! Forecasting National Color Trends from Midtown Manhattan, 1920s – 1950s


With Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Who predicted color trends before Pantone and the Color Marketing Group? This talk explores the careers of America's first professional color forecasters and their efforts to coordinate the flow of color information through the millinery, leather, garment, and textile trades. Heard of Mamie Eisenhower's First Lady Pink? Come and hear about the forecasters who created it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Art writer Bruce Hainley talks about his work


Critic, poet and professor Hainley has written about Los Angeles art, and art around the world. His essays on William E. Jones, Tom Friedman and Trisha Donnelly probe visual culture with gaping honesty. Hainley, who has been a contributing editor at ArtForum has published Foul Mouth, a book of poetry, and also contributed to books about Richard Hawkins, Tomma Abts, and Andy Warhol, among others. In 2003, Hainley and John Waters collaborated on Art: A Sex Book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Talk | Artist K8 Hardy talks about her work


K8 Hardy is a Brooklyn based artist known mainly for her work in video and performance art. Hardy’s work is largely influenced by second-wave feminist artists. She is one of the founding editors of LTTR, a radical gender-queer, lesbian-feminist art collective and journal. She also works as a fashion stylist for clients including Fischerspooner and has made music videos for bands including Lesbians on Ecstasy and Le Tigre. Hardy has exhibited at such institutions as Serpentine Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, PS 1, and The Tate Modern.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Discussion | That’s Not What I Meant!: Translating Literature


Acclaimed Swiss writer Peter Stamm, author of the novels Agnes, Unformed Landscape, and On a Day Like This, and the short story collection In Strange Gardens, and poet Michael Hofmann, translator of Stamm’s works and of many twentieth-century masters, will converse about the challenges of bringing Stamm into English. Moderated by Susan Bernofsky.
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | The Distribution of Firm Size in Africa and Its Implication for Industrial Policy


Dr. Janvier D. Nkurunziza is presenting a paper that analyzes the distribution of firms into four size categories, namely micro, small, medium and large. Using data on Keya’s manufacturing sector, his empirical results suggest that firm growth is associated with overall economic performance and research focuses on the economic crisis in Kenya’s economic crisis in the 1990s. The results imply that supporting SMEs indiscriminately, as is often suggested, could be too costly. The event is preceded by a wine and cheese reception and followed by a Q&A.
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Absolute Beginners Bead Workshop


Cody Harjo will lead this workshop for those interested in learning appliqué beadwork for the very first time or as a refresher course. Space is limited!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Business Ownership Workshop for New Entrepreneurs


Is purchasing a franchise or an existing business an appropriate option for you? Alan Goldberg from FranNet of NYC will explain available franchise and business opportunities, as well as, the major components of a franchise agreement, the legal obligations of owning a franchise business and how to identify creative solutions for funding your new business. Goldberg built his career developing integrated marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies in the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Package Goods and Financial Service industries. He now coaches and assists small business owners and entrepreneurs to identify, research, finance, and launch the "right franchise business.” FranNet, founded in 1987, is the Nation’s oldest and largest network of Franchise Business Consultants.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Dominic Lieven discusses his book Russia against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace


Lieven, Professor of History at the London School of Economics, will speak about his new book. Based on a fresh examination of Russian military archives, Russia against Napoleon provides the first-ever history of the period told from the Russian perspective. In Lieven's account, Russia's victory in 1812 was just the beginning of what would be the longest military campaign in European history, marked by Russia's epic efforts to feed and supply half a million troops as they crossed an entire continent. Introduction by Victoria de Grazia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Four Ways to Think about Kinds of Moral Theories


Eric Wiland of the University of Missouri-St. Louis speaks. Philosophers not only think about what to do--nearly everyone does that--but we also think about how to think about what to do. There are numerous moral theories, and it is both interesting and useful to have multiple illuminating ways of categorizing them. Here Wiliand introduce four specific, mutually compatible ways to taxonomize moral theories. He'll discuss how we might improve upon current moral theories by deploying these new taxonomical schemes in our critical evaluations of the current options. Eric Wiland works primarily on topics in ethics and practical reason. He investigates problems in practical philosophy by thinking about people who have various cognitive and motivational flaws, especially those who recognize that they have such flaws.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Health and Social Policy in the 21st Century


What have been the points of entry into the job market, and what have been the paths of career progression, for alumni? Join a revealing discussion and meet alumni working in the fields of health and social policy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Julie Heffernan's “Boy, Oh Boy”


Using the male figure for the first time, Heffernan’s new works explore the idea of human progress on both personal and political levels. The figures are an homage to transition and the passing on of wisdom from one generation to the next. The space of the canvas meditates on how we move into new chapters of our lives, both personally and as a planet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Kidnapped! Daniele Mastrogiacomo in Conversation with Federico Rampini


In March 2007, while on assignment in southern Afghanistan, Italian reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo was kidnapped by the Taliban. He was moved from one improvised prison to the next over a dozen times during his captivity, and was forced to witness the decapitation of his interpreter when negotiations for his and his collaborators’ release stalled. He talks about his experience, about the relationships that formed between him and his captors, about the war in Afghanistan and the rise of the new Taliban, with veteran foreign correspondent and La Repubblica’s New York bureau chief, Federico Rampini.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | MFA Design & Technology Thesis Students


Graduates of the MFA Design & Technology program present thesis projects ranging from mobile games, websites, video games, 2-D and 3-D animation, motion graphics, digital films, and more. This intensive graduate program trains students to pursue forward-thinking, creative, commercial, research-based, educational and art-based career paths that marry the concepts of design with the potential of technology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Readings from Plays by Shirley Lauro


Shirley Lauro channels class, race and religious prejudice in "All Through the Night,” “Speckled Birds” and “Clarence Darrow’s Last Trial.” Actors Lucy Divito, Delphi Harrington, Richmond Hoxie, Ilene Kristen, and Michelle Lookadoo read from Lauro's three newly published plays. Complimentary refreshments and book signing follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Shirazeh Houshiary's Light Darkness


An exhibition of new works by Shirazeh Houshiary. Each of the works oscillate and metamorphose constantly, revealing the true nature of the world which is not permanent or concrete, but illusive and changing. Houshiary was born and raised in Iran and moved to London in 1974. Initially known for her sculpture, her first works on canvas date back to 1992. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Camden Arts Centre in London, and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, among others, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994. Houshiary's work was also included in Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 2006 and will be included in the 2010 Sydney Biennial.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Solo Shows: Marian Osher's Fearless Flying! / Judith Greenwald's Poem


Osher's in-flight fascination with the textures and abstractions of the earth and clouds has inspired her to create colorful mixed media paintings and wall hangings that help combat her fear of flying. With honesty and humor, she also shares in writing, the personal experiences that contributed to her fear, including her 9/11 flight, as well as the various "tools" that enabled her to return to flying without fear. Poems have been variously described as soul-making, life-cherishing and magic-inducing. They have been referred to as gifts, surprises, prayers and challenges. Much the same can be said about the paintings in Greenwald's show. Each of the highly textured paintings has been inspired by a particular poem.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Vendela Vida's Novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: The Search for a Father


The Book Discussion Group reads this novel of a woman's search for her true parentage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Violinist Shem Guibbory and Friends


Chamber music by Benjamin Britten.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Discussion | Will a Warmer World Be Stormier?


Over the next century, the Earth is expected to warm by several degrees due to continued and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. Some of the impacts of this anthropogenic climate change can be predicted with a high degree of confidence: Warming almost everywhere, but especially at higher latitudes; rising sea level; melting of Arctic sea ice; wet regions becoming wetter, and dry regions becoming drier. Among the phenomena of greatest interest to the general public are storms of all kinds – everyday synoptic midlatitude storms, hurricanes, thunderstorms and severe storms, and the extreme precipitation, lightning, hail, and winds that accompany them.
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Lecture | Four Ways to Misunderstand Euripides’ Medea


Glenn Most, Professor of Social Thought and of Classics at the University of Chicago, will speak.
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6:15 pm
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Workshop | Basic Windows


Hands on using wireless laptops. A basic review of the Windows operating system. Learn how to customize, improve and organize your computer by managing files, folders and more!
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Director Tarik Saleh discusses his film Metropia


The Egyptian-Swedish writer-director speaks about his animated science-fiction film, a futuristic look at a terrifying Europe where the world is running out of oil. Saleh and his collaborators used an innovative technique in which actual photographs were altered and heavily stylized in a computer program, and then animated.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | “Age is Unnecessary:” Shakespeare's King Lear and the Morality of Old Age


With Naomi Conn Lieber. If the moral fiber of a civilization can be measure by how it cares for its elderly, then we can learn much about both Shakespeare’s time and our own through his representations of old age. In King Lear, more than in any other play, we confront the paradox of honoring old age while acknowledging its challenges.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Bust Magazine's Spoken Word Extravaganza with Actress Amber Tamblyn and Author Patricia Smith


In honor of National Poetry Month, an evening of spoken word featuring some of the country's top female performance poets. Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (Everything is Everything) will host the reading, which will feature electrifying performances by Aptowicz, National Book Award nominee Patricia Smith (Blood Dazzler), Golden Globe nominee Amber Tamblyn (Bang Ditto) and Women of the World Poetry Slam champion Rachel McKibbens (Pink Elephant). This is a poetry event for anyone who thinks they hate poetry--and for those who love it.
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | A Gathering of Voices: On Children's Literature


A unique appearance by British author David Almond, winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen medal, the world’s most prestigious prize in children’s literature. He joins Francisco X. Stork, Janne Teller, and Ed Young to talk about their work and its sources. Each author is rooted in and has found inspiration from a specific culture—in England, Mexico, Denmark, and China. How do their roots influence how they speak to children? Which subjects seem right? How have influences from other cultures affected them, and in what ways do they approach universal themes—and taboos? This lively panel will be moderated by Elizabeth Bird, author and senior children’s librarian with New York Public Library’s Children’s Center at 42nd Street.
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Creative Writing Program Graduate Student Readings


Readings from thesis manuscripts of poetry and fiction.
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Lecture | Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and Heidegger


A lecture by Gerhard Richter, Professor of German at UC-Davis.
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Other | David Grubin discusses his DVD The Buddha


Grubin tells the story of Buddha’s life in this program that premieres on PBS in April.
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Grace Browning, Harp


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Discussion | Literary Magazines: Here and Abroad, Now and in the Future


Join the editors of Granta, The Paris Review, and PEN America—along with three contributors to those magazines—for a freewheeling conversation about the past, present, and future of literary magazines, both in the United States and abroad. For two centuries now, literary magazines have played essential roles in the lives and careers of writers, editors, and readers—introducing and nurturing new authors, providing outlets for writers both overlooked and established, and publishing groundbreaking work that might not otherwise find a readership. How are those tasks changing in the internet age? And how does the job of the literary magazine vary across continents? John Freeman of Granta, M Mark of PEN America, and the new editor of The Paris Review will be joined by writers Rodrigo Fresán, Rawi Hage, and Peter Stamm in a conversation moderated by David Haglund, managing editor of PEN America.
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Author Reading | Louise Nayer reads from her memoir Burned


Nayer writes about her family after a fire engulfs her parents, leaving them disfigured.
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Performance Art: Valerie Caris Blitz's Woman in Yesod


A tribute downtown artist Valerie Caris Blitz with an exhibition of her last works. Caris Blitz died at the age of 52 on July 28, 2009, after a long illness. She was well known for her performance art and appearances in more than 40 films during the 1980s, most notably Ari Roussimoff's Shadows of the City. This exhibition will feature her select works, ephemera and film screenings.
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Poetry Reading | Poets: Mahogany Browne / Falu / Taylor Mal


Come out for poetry as it should be experienced: lively, reveling, insightful, lyrical. Mahogany Browne, Falu, and Taylor Mal will each perform works published by Penmanship Books and Write Bloody Books. Browne is the curator at Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Falu is an accomplished slam performer and teacher. Mali has appeared on Def Poetry and runs Page Meets Stage at Bowery Poetry. Each is widely published.
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7:00 pm
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Other | Publishing Triangle Awards 2010


The Publishing Triangle presents the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction in this annual ceremony. The Publishing Triangle also partners with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present awards in gay and lesbian fiction and with the Robert Chelsey Foundation to present awards for playwriting. The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement is also presented at this event. A public reception follows the ceremony.
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Puppet Masters of the Macabre


A night of spooky stop-motion animation. Hosted by Aurelio Voltaire
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Puppet Masters of the Macabre: a night of spooky stop-motion animation


Stop-motion animation has been around since the very beginning of film and is still around today. The art of manipulating rubber puppets and bringing them to life by posing them one frame at a time on film has seen something of a renaissance in recent history with the release of such films as Coraline, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and A Town Called Panic. Unlike it's shiny and new cousin, computer animation, stop-motion has always had a home-made and somewhat surreal quality to it. Perhaps it is for that reason that it is often the technique of choice for filmmakers like Tim Burton and Henry Selick, looking to create a strange and spooky world (Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, James and the Giant Peach). Aurelio Voltaire, a filmmaker firmly entrenched in the world of dark, puppet animation takes us on a little tour. Voltaire will screen excerpts from his reel (including station IDs created in the early days of MTV and The Sy Fy channel and a few of his award-winning shorts) as well as the work of other colleagues and luminaries of macabre animation. The screening will be immediately followed by a panel discussion lead by Voltaire. On the panel will be Micah Van Hove of Small and Creepy films and other stop-motion animators and industry professionals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Stuart Lutz in Conversation with Ziegfeld Follies Girl Doris Eaton Travis


Lutz discusses his new book, The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors, with the last remaining Ziegfeld Follies Girl, Doris Eaton Travis, who has just turned 106 years old.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Student Production: Richard Sheridan's The Rivals


Alex Harvey directs and the Graduate Acting Class of 2011 performs this 1775 comedy of manners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Student Recital: Brazilian Ensemble



   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Works for violin and paino by Schumann and Stravinsky


Program: Robert Schumann: Sonata No. 2 in d minor, Op. 121 Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento Eugene Ysaye: Sonata for Solo Violin A virtuoso violin/piano recital with former Musica Bella member and violin soloist Sarah Kapustin and pianist Cory Smythe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Chamber Music Department Concert


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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7:30 pm
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Concert | Chamber Singers' “Bachanalia”


Paul F. Mueller, conductor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Contemporary Opera Ensemble


   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Poets Dorothea Lasky and Geoffrey Nutter read their work


DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE and Black Life. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Laurel Review, Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, Octopus, Absent, Forklift, Ohio, Coconut, Small Town, Typo, Fou, and others. GEOFFREY NUTTER is the author of Christopher Sunset, Water's Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) and A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Sam Cutler reads from his book You Can't Always Get What You Want


Cutler's memoir of how the illegitimate son of an Irish Gypsy and a Jewish mathematician became the personal tour manager for two of the greatest bands of all time: the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Jon Kimura Parker


The Artist Master Class Series features the pianists of Steinhardt performing and interacting with renowned artists from around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Dance Performance | Showing V: Student Dance Works


The final showing of new work created by students in their 1st and 2nd years of study.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Sociological Imagination Series


Douglas Massey, Princeton University, delivers a lecture TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Student Productions: Here We Are / The Prisoner of Second Avenue / Rosemary with Ginger


The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University presents: Here We Are by Dorothy Parker; a scene from The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon; and Rosemary with Ginger by Edward Allan Baker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dancing | Learn the world's most romantic dance -- TANGO!


Learn the world's most romantic dance with a workshop for absolute beginners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital: Rhythm & Blues Ensemble



   New York City, NY; NYC
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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 Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:30 pm
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