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75 free events take place on Friday, April 30 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 30 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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75 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, April 30, 2010

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Tour | Museum of American Finance Tour


The Museum and short walk in the neighborhood. Eat first.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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 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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Other | Commemoration of Washington's Inauguration


Commemorate the anniversary of George Washington's inauguration at the site where it occurred. There will be a re-enactment at 12:30pm outside, after which park rangers will lead the George Washington's New York walking tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Discussion | Face Off! Overcoming Barriers


It is often said that it is not the life that matters, but the courage one brings to it. Four acclaimed authors from the U.K., Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, discuss how the characters in their books summon the courage to overcome obstacles and live the kind of life they aspire to. Do writers get a kind of freedom, a way to problem solve issues from their own lives and even an opportunity to test their own mettle, through their characters? Matt De La Peña asks our guests to share how their characters face down obstacles, both internal and external, and what their work means to their own lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Visual Resources Online


This class is a lecture/demonstration. An introduction to online image databases and research strategies, including The Library Digital collections.
   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

Conference | Crossing the Line: The 2010 D-Crit Conference


Graduating students from the MFA Design Criticism Department will present papers based on their theses in a conference moderated by Kurt Andersen, co-creator and host of Studio 360, WNYC and Public Radio International's art and culture program. Topics range from the design of personal memorial objects to the use of smell as a communicative tool in design, and from physical wordplay in the films of Jean-Luc Godard to the applications and implications of car sharing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | MS Word 2


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include mail merge, tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lecture | China in the 21st Century: A Cultural Historian's Take on Contemporary Events and Contemporary Dilemmas


With Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Other | Open Studios



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Concert | Yesterday and Today: Beatles Tribute Band


Yesterday and Today, a tribute to music of the Beatles, will perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Reading | Garden Readings


Romanian author Filip Florian introduces strange saints, inept lovers, wanderers from old fairy tales, and local legends; Monique Proulx describes a unique landscape in her novel, Wildlives; and Marcel Möring’s In a Dark Wood explores the guilt, fear, and loss suffered by Europeans, and in particular the Jewish people, during and after the Holocaust. According to Jonathan Lethem, Rodrigo Fresán is “a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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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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
$6

Workshop | Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience needed and equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Conference | Global Thought: Building an African Presence


The onset of the 20th century brought with it new information and representations about Africa. These new ideas about the continent enabled different groups to contribute to the process of building an African presence in the world. It is this reconstitution of Africa within a world context that this conference will focus on. Convened by Professor Mamadou Diouf and Dr. Jinny Prais, the conference will consider how to reframe this historical period with Africa located at the center of what scholars have previously approached as a strictly western/European discussion. The ways that Africans and people of African descent rearticulated and reimagined Africa within this global discussion about the future of civilization and humanity will also be considered.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Incognito: Writers and their Aliases


People use aliases to hide their true identity—it’s a way to remain anonymous and out of the spotlight. But in an age when being a celebrity is considered a goal in and of itself, why would an author want to mask his or her identity by writing under an alias? Alina Bronsky from Germany is not who she says she is. Bernardo Atxaga is also a nom de plume, while Randa Jarrar chose to write a fictional account of a life that very much resembles her own. Some of Arnon Grunberg’s books were written in the name of Marek van der Jagt. Together they will discuss identity and truth and might even reveal how they settled on their own particular pseudonym.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Conference | Journalism of Opinion


An examination of the role of the "journalism of opinion" in American intellectual history in the last century and how it continues in the digital world. The journalism of opinion has played a significant role in twentieth-century American intellectual history. From its beginnings in paper only format, through hybrid paper and digital formats, and into purely digital spaces, the influence of journalism of opinion has remained strong. But the presence of journals of opinion has diminished. The message has outlasted the medium and more journalism of opinion exists online than off today This short conference will offer thoughts on the journalism of opinion past, present, and future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Future of Journalism with Lewis Lapham


With Lewis Lapham, Joris Luyendijk, Martin Pollack, and Mary Anne Weaver. International desks and bureaus—once the backbone of the news business—are closing around the world. Journalists in general are losing their jobs at a huge rate—yet degrees in journalism remain popular. Several respected newspapers have turned off their printing presses, and those that remain are still struggling to make profitable use of the Internet. Join a distinguished group of editors and journalists for a discussion on the future of the news.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Poetry of Edward Hopper


The great American painter of solitude comes back to us brilliantly illuminated and transformed by the Catalan poet Ernest Farrés, whose recent Edward Hopper is a collection of poems based on Hopper’s paintings. New York poet Edward Hirsch, who has also written about Hopper, joins Farrés for a conversation about the power of Hopper’s imagery to invoke poetry.
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Discussion | This Critical Moment: The Journey—A National Book Critics Circle Conversation


With Eric Banks, Jane Ciabattari, Rigoberto González, and Mary Ann Newman. Have a conversation with leading literary critics about the work of some of the writers at this year’s Festival—including Sherman Alexie, Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, Martin Solares, and Peter Stamm. Who are their influences? How has their work been received, both here and abroad? Members of the National Book Critics Circle trace the journey these writers have traveled from publication to translation to critical attention.
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Film | Jack Couffer's Ring of Bright Water (1969): Born Free with an Otter


Mij is a cuddly pet shop otter who captures the heart of Graham Merill, who doesn't take long to realize that London is no place to raise a slippery otter. So he takes Mij to live in a ramshackle cottage on the coast of Scotland. 107 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985): Strange Boy in a Strange Land


With Paul Reubens. Pee-wee's most prized possession, his shiny new bicycle, is stolen, and he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey determined to recover it. 95 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Changing Style in Children's Books


Taking a chronological approach, view representative examples of 200 years of children&#146;s books. Illustration techniques, period social and religious concerns, humor and pathos, and primers from the colonial period to Dick and Jane are all considered.
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2:15 pm
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Screening | Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith's Documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers (2009): An Oscar Nominee


The story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "Imperial" Presidency-answerable to neither Congress, the press, nor the people-in order to help end the Vietnam War. 92 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers” (2009, 94 min.)


The multiple award-winning film traces how Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concluded that the war was based on decades of lies and leaked 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Ellsberg risked life in prison to stop a war he helped plan. This story of one man's profound change of heart is also a piercing look at the world of government secrecy as revealed by the ultimate insider. The film was a 2010 Academy Award Nominee and has won seven other prizes to-date. Robert Ellsberg , Daniel's son and a key figure in the Pentagon Papers affair, will appear at the event for a talk-back and questions. Robert Ellsberg, Daniel's son, was 13 years old when his father asked for his help in Xeroxing the top-secret Pentagon Papers study. Robert was later called before the Grand Jury to testify to his father's acts and Robert's testimony served in part as the basis of the indictment against Ellsberg and a "co-conspirator," Tony Russo. At age 19, he joined the progressive Catholic Worker Movement and worked with its founder, Dorothy Day for the last five years of her life. Robert earned a Master's degree in Theology from Harvard Divinity School. He is currently the publisher of Orbis Books, the publishing arm of the Maryknoll Fathers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
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Workshop | Shopping Online: A Guide to Bargain-Hunting


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn about safe, secure, and reputable shopping websites that offer money-saving deals and rebates.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with poet Jonathan Galassi


Galassi became an editor in the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Company in 1973. He was a senior editor at Random House from 1981 to 1986, when he joined Farrar, Straus, and Giroux as vice-president and executive editor. He was named editor-in-chief of FSG in 1988, executive vice-president in 1993, publisher in 1999, and president of the firm in January 2002. Galassi has published two books of poems: Morning Run and North Street. He has also translated several volumes of the work of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale: The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays; Otherwise: Last and First Poems; Collected Poems: 1920-1954; and Posthumous Diary.
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Discussion | Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading


With Ben Okri, Thomas Pletzinger, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, and Sergi Sokolovskiy; moderated by Ben Schrank. Philip Roth recently said that reading novels would be a “cultic” activity in 25 years, adding that “the book can’t compete with the screen.” Do other writers share his pessimism? How does the situation differ across cultures and continents—and are there lessons in those differences? These writers—some of whom Twitter and some who will not—come together for a conversation about the future of reading with Ben Schrank, president and publisher of Razorbill, an imprint at Penguin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible, with Jonathan Lethem


With Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk; moderated by Albert Mobilio. Where do you want to live? There’s the best of all possible worlds. Or the worst. Plato’s Republic, or Orwell’s Oceania? Of course, such idealizations exist only in the imagination — the very word utopia means “no place” in Greek. Not surprisingly, these unchartable locales inspire novelists. And we look to them to articulate our longing for a better world, as well as our dread of a worse one. These writers from Russia, the U.S., Israel, and Poland will consider these among many questions: can the novel—in this ironic age—still give voice to such strong feelings about societies? Are ideals themselves—whether uplifting or despairing—incompatible with the novelist’s inquisitive tack? And isn’t every utopia someone else’s dystopia?
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Lecture | Formation of Consensus in the Speech Community


With William Labov, PhD, Professor of Linguistics, Pennsylvania University. Study of linguistic variation began by charting social differentiation of speakers of New York City dialect. We now recognize the pattern as part of a consensus that unifies more than divides the speech community. Recent mappings of linguistic change across North America show uniform directions in regional populations as large as 90 million. Correlating changes with local social networks and communities of practice does not account for such large-scale uniformities. A search for driving forces behind these trends calls for exploring settlement patterns and cultural histories. Most remarkable has been finding that dialect boundaries coincide with the Blue States/Red States division in recent presidential elections.
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3:15 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Writers Quim Monzó and Robert Coover


Catalan writer Quim Monzó draws on the rich tradition of surrealism to put a deliberately paranoid sense of menace in the mundane. He has translated Arthur Miller, J.D. Salinger, Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury, and the works of Robert Coover, who joins him today. Sit in on this special discussion about Monzó’s new book, Gasoline, and the things these two acclaimed writers share—their lyrical, visionary imaginations, and fantastic senses of the absurd.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future


With Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares; moderated by Deborah Treisman. What virtues and challenges are unique to the short story? How flexible is the form? And why is it that, even now—after Poe, Chekov, Hemingway, O’Connor, Nabokov, and Munro—the short story often gets less respect, in terms of prizes and critical esteem, than the novel? Join acclaimed practitioners of the form from Bosnia, Israel, China, Mexico, and the United States, for a conversation with The New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about the past, present, and future of the short story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Appreciating Arlen


A lecture with Walter Frisch, Respondent: Hannah Clancy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | British Documentary: Havana Marking's Afghan Star (2009)


Afghan Pop Idol is taking the nation by the storm after 30 years of war and Taliban rule, and contestants are risking their lives to sing. Followed by a discussion with director Marking. 87 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Panel on Animal Ethics


Speakers: Stefano di Brisco, Matt Congdon, Nicolas Delon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Crystal Emery's Documentary The Deadliest Disease in America: Racism in the Healthcare System


This film portrays the issues of disparities in the U.S. healthcare system based on race using a film screening and workshop model. 55 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Heaven and Earth: Writers' Decisions


With Karl O. Knausgaard, Joris Luyendijk, Monique Proulx, and Natalia Sannikova; moderated by Noreen Tomassi. Writers have any number of tools up their sleeve—structure, genre, and language are among some of the many devices they can call upon. Whether to swoop through the celestial heavens on the rhythms of lyrical language or move through terra firma with accurate, hard-hitting depictions, is a decision writers make before they even put pen to paper. Norwegian novelist Karl Knausgaard whose latest book is all about myths and angels, and Quebec writer Monique Proulx, who uses nature as a character in her most recent novel, are joined by Natalia Sannikova from Russia and Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk, who adds some heavy doses of realism from the world of reportage. They’ll be guided to heaven and back to earth by the executive director of the Center for Fiction, Noreen Tomassi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
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Opening Reception | 2 Shows: Pantyhose & Morandi / Current Drawing


Kathy Butterly's Pantyhose & Morandi showcases recent ceramic sculptures and works on paper. Current Drawing is a selection of drawings by three emerging artists: Tara Geer, Colter Jacobsen and Jon Shelton.
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Writers David Almond and Sofi Oksanen in Conversation


Young characters allow their creators to explore the world and its very grownup problems with a unique innocence and honesty. The characters from David Almond’s many award-winning books including Skellig and Sofi Oksanen’s Purge move through harrowing times, managing to survive and tell their particular tales, growing from their woes along the way. What kind of freedom do these characters allow their authors? What challenges are there in writing them? Do child protagonists provide less, as much, or more wisdom than adults? Rakesh Satyal, author of the acclaimed novel Blue Boy, moderates a conversation about all this and more.
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Jazz | Zon del Barrio: Salsa/Latin Jazz


Bringing dance style classic Afro-Boricua music from the barrios, Zon del Barrio bring its foot stomping, funk based classic salsa, plena, merengue, bomba & boogalu to the corners of the Barrios where Latinos live, work and play. Creative, musically diverse in taste while resourceful in survival, Latinos from the barrio zones have sophisticated tastes in music that is not relegated to one particular genre. Zon del Barrio emerges as one of the few orchestras to express the varied genres of Latin music from the African Diaspora and the urban streets of New York. This group of veteran and young musicians is led by music journalist & historian, Aurora Flores with musical direction provided by David Fernandez, a multi-instrumentalist who defers to his almost encyclopedic knowledge of the classics for his creative arrangements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Discussion | German author Peter Schneider talks about his work


Award-winning German author Peter Schneider, who has published over 20 novels, screenplays, and volumes of journalistic essays since his first novel, Lenz, in 1973 will take part in an interview. Come listen as the authors compare notes on their literary maps and oeuvres, homelands real and imagined, and their common journeys as authors over the past few tumultuous decades.
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Opening Reception | Open Studios


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Opening Reception | Photography & Sculpture: Liu Bolin's On Fire


Liu Bolin's message of political protest is understood throughout the world and bridges gaps in language and culture. Discussions of his works have been the subject of emails, blogs, magazine and journal articles on a massive scale. Born in China's Shandong province in 1973, Liu Bolin's work has been exhibited throughout the world, including at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, the Museum on the Seam in Israel, the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts, the Seoul Art Museum in Korea, and the Chicago Cultural Center in the United States.
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Opening Reception | Solo Show: Greg Smith's Bearded


New work from Smith in his third solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist writes: "The Universe is built from a simple form. That form is commonly understood to be an atom and the shape of that form is commonly understood to be a sphere. For my purposes, I would prefer to see that shape as a beard, or at least a caricature of a beard. For better or worse, there are associations that go along with the beard: disguise, masculinity, Santa Claus, homosexuality, survivalism, fundamentalism, and wisdom, for example. My beard shape is used to build objects, mechanical devices, and a set; these in turn are used to construct a range of scenarios, including those that are well outside (and perhaps even antagonistic toward) these familiar associations and stereotypes."
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Opening Reception | SUM OF ITS PARTS -- A group exhibition of collage and assemblage


"Perhaps no art form expresses the character of the twentieth century and the contemporary moment with greater clarity and immediacy than collage. The artist confronts us with a vision of the world that is literally constructed from the physical context of his /her own experience." said Pavel Zoubok, curator.
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Discussion | The directors of Freakonomics discuss their film


Join Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock, Seth Gordon, Alex Gibney, Heidi Ewing, and Rachel Grady as they discuss their documentary film collaboration in which they each interpret a different chapter of the bestselling book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
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Discussion | Writing Inside, Writing Outside


With Anthony Cardenales, Piper Kerman, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; moderated by Jackson Taylor. To the average person, the daily life behind prison walls is an invisible world. Writing about the everyday experiences of life from inside this system closed to the general public comes with as many challenges as writing about the experience outside. Piper Kerman, who documented the thirteen months she spent in prison in Orange is the New Black, is joined by journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of the award-winning Random Family, which charts the lives of a community in the South Bronx, and by Anthony Cardenales, one of LeBlanc’s subjects. These three writers will discuss their work and how the polarities of documenting and living the prison experience affected their writing.
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Performance | Applause, Applause!: An Evening of Scenes and Songs from Broadway Shows


Featuring the Studio Players.
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Discussion | A New World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig’s Utopian Nostalgia


With Michael Hofmann, Paul Holdengräber, George Prochnik, and Klemens Renoldner; moderated by Jonathan Taylor. Stefan Zweig, possibly the best-selling “serious” author of the first half of the 20th century, mined cultural history for lessons in civilization for a humanity plunging into barbarity. In his portraits of elite Europe, the approach of modernity is experienced with a view fixed on the disappearing past; meanwhile, the unfolding present drove him to the New World, and suicide in Brazil in 1942. Zweig, a perennial nominee for “rediscovery” as a great writer, has been praised as a keeper of the flame of humanism and dismissed as blindly apolitical.
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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
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Reading | Creative Writing Program Graduate Student Readings


Readings from thesis manuscripts of poetry and fiction.
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Book Discussion | David Lodge's Novel Deaf Sentence: The Growing Silence


The Fiction Reading Group plans a lively discussion of this month's selection, which is about an elderly man losing his hearing.
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Author Reading | Kate Zambreno reads from her book O Fallen Angel


American triptych and grotesque homage to Mrs. Dalloway, Zambreno's debut novel filters pop-cultural debris along with author Masha Tupitsyn (Beauty Talk & Monsters) and poet and psychotherapist Kim Rosenfield (Good Morning Midnight).
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Screening | Movies from Creative Capital: Opening Night Event


Political, subversive, wickedly funny, wildly imaginative—this doesn’t even begin to describe the films and videos that Creative Capital has supported and nurtured over the past eleven years. Since 1999, the New York–based national nonprofit has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to more than four hundred artists in a variety of disciplines. Recognizing the extraordinary contribution that Creative Capital has made to sustaining art of the highest quality in the United States, this is a selection of some of the most original, impassioned, and rebellious films and videos that Creative Capital has funded until now, along with premieres of new works.
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Opening Reception | Open Studio Weekend


Meet 20 visual artists and 9 writers in their studio spaces and see what they’ve been working on since September 2009!
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Author Reading | Raul Zurita reads from her book Purgatory


Zurita is a legendary avant-garde Chilean poet. His first book has just been reissued, but he may be more famous for his later work, including skywriting poetry over New York and bulldozing it into the Chilean high desert. He's an outsized talent with an even greater reputation. This a bilingual event.
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Theater | Student Production: Pierre de Marivaux's Romantic Roulette


Cigdem Onat directs and the Graduate Acting Class of 2011 performs this 18th-century French comedy.
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Discussion | Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet discusses his film Micmacs


The French auteur behind Delicatessen and Amélie discusses his latest film. The story follows Bazil, raised as an orphan, who now has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous mishap. Gentle-natured and kind, he exacts a revenge plot against the giant weapons manufacturers responsible for his accident.
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Concert | Faculty & Staff Art Show


With Paul Shaw, piano.
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Dance Performance | Yoo & Dancers


Yoo & Dancers will perform Gong at Traditions in Transition Festival. Hee Ra Yoo, originally from Kwang-Ju, Korea, is artistic director of Yoo & Dancers. Yoo has danced with the Korean National Ballet, the Kirov Ballet. Yoo & Dancers thrives on synthesis and garners inspiration from the continual melding of forms and cultures. Their works come from a melting pot of movements (i.e. traditional dances from around the world, gymnastics, martial arts and classical as well as modern dance) and from an eclectic variety of unique artists.
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Dance Performance | Annual Spring Dance Performance


The Eugene Lang College Dance Department presents its annual Spring Dance Performance. The performance is the culmination of the yearlong residency of Jim May, artistic director of the Sokolow Theater Dance Ensemble. To commemorate the centennial of the birth of renowned American choreographer and modern theater dance creator Anna Sokolow, May has worked with students to reconstruct her groundbreaking work Lyrical Suite. The piece, which has not been performed in 25 years, premiered in 1953 at the 92nd Street Y. Creating the work, Sokolow drew from her years as a soloist, using each section of the piece to examine, without narrative, a broad range of human emotions through the use of walks, lunges, runs, and falls. The performance also premieres original dance works conceived and directed by Lang faculty and featuring Lang students.
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Concert | Argento Chamber Ensemble performs works by Stravinsky and others


Program: Stravinsky Les Noces Victor Adán Fonoptera Michel Galante "Duos and Trios" from Lean-To Daniel Iglesia American Engineer The Argento Chamber Ensemble presents a concert of three world premiere intermedia concert works alongside Stravinsky’s Les Noces. Stravinsky’s masterwork, alongside his creations with Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, exemplified a composer working across genres and media to create a unified interdisciplinary work. Les Noces here functions as the touchstone for three new pieces that take such boundary-crossing composition to exciting new limits. The first is Fonoptera, by Víctor Adán, for four player pianos and eight composer-built one-bit mechanical instruments. Electronics precisely control all instruments, allowing incredibly detailed small-scale interactions to scale upwards into masses of spatialized sound. Along the way are explorations of the blurry boundaries between rhythm, timbre, and space. Composer, conductor, and Argento Chamber Ensemble leader Michel Galante premieres the movement "Duos and Trios" from Lean-To, a collaborative work with choreographer Kate Weare. Written for three filmed dancers and two instruments, it contains a variety of nuanced relationships within the instruments, within the dancers, and between the two groups. In American Engineer, Daniel Iglesia combines an instrumental ensemble, electronic sound, and live video for 3D glasses into one fused sensory experience. Iglesia takes samples from a mid-20th-century industrial film and weaves a tangible, though ever-shifting, network of correlations between the three media. The premieres will be performed by the Argento Chamber Ensemble. As the finale, Les Noces will be performed by soloists from the Ekmeles Ensemble, the Princeton Chamber Choir, pianists from Columbia Classical Performers, the Percussion Ensemble of Queens College, and conducted by Michel Galante.
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Concert | Contemporary Music Festival 2010


With 2010 Composer-in-Residence John Musto.
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Concert | Help Wanted: An A Cappella Show by the Art Mob


The Art Mob, an uncommon a cappella chorus of sixteen intrepid accomplices, finally faces reality in its spring concert, “Help Wanted.” They have perused musty, dusty songbooks and retrieved these timely petitions: “Give to the Cause,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Hard Times,” and “Under the Curse.” The depression-era ditty “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” sounds new again. Hear them out and help out as they romp through chosen temperance, seafaring, Sacred Harp, Irish ballad, radio gospel, scary children’s ditty, and vaudeville songs! The Art Mob is: Brent Frederick (music director), Connie Beckley, Aldo Ceresa, Gaynor Coté, Martin Donach, Therezia Gaal, Cheryl Morrison, Dean Rainey, Dan Rosenbaum, Ruby McNeil, Nancy Moore Simpson, Rita Selby, Jared Stamm, Kirsten Skrinde, Vicki Watson, and Mark Wolff. 
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Performance | Performance Art: Low Lives 2


A one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at nine venues throughout the U.S. Produced and curated by Jorge Rojas, Low Lives, now in its second year, provides a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances.
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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.
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Screening | Six Short Films by Joan Jonas


In the 1960s, both inspired by and part of an emerging practice that brought avant-garde practices to traditional performance mediums like dance, the New York–based media artist Joan Jonas began exploring time as a medium. This program features films and videos that Jonas made between 1968 and 1976. All works are by Jonas and from the U.S. Wind (1968) A group of performers moves through a stark, windswept Long Island landscape. Silent. 6 min. Songdelay (1973) A choreographed theater of space, movement, and sound alongside the Hudson River. 19 min. Glass Puzzle (1973) Performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, this film explores archetypal female gestures and poses, the body, and narcissism. 18 min. Three Returns (1973) In this minimalist exercise, Jonas addresses perceptual phenomena and questions the camera’s recording of reality. 13 min. Barking (1973) Marked by a sense of anticipation, this film focuses on a car parked outside a house in rural Nova Scotia. 2 min. I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) (1976) Jonas is seen watching video images shot in a New York studio and in rural Nova Scotia. 24 min. Program approx. 83 min.
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Concert | Student Marimba Ensemble


From the Program in Percussion Performance.
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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.
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Jazz | Emilio Teubal & La Balteuband: Argentine Jazz


Argentine pianist/composer/arranger Emilio Teubal and his ensemble La Balteuband perform meticulously orchestrated amalgams of Argentine music and introspective jazz. Their latest album Un monton de notas translates as “a bunch of notes,” but don’t be mistaken; this group is as much about breathtaking subtlety and instrumental color as it is flashy virtuosity.
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