30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 25, 2011
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Editor's Pick
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist ...
more >> of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Jennifer Williams leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm ...
more >> and 1:30pm -3pm.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include ...
more >> tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
A talk by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Ulema Council of ...
more >> Afghanistan has been playing an influential role in political affairs and civil society. Recent fatwas (religious opinions) from the Ulema Council of Afghanistan demonstrate the Council's influence over legislative and judicial matters, and illustrate how the Ulema Council attempts to reconcile Afghanistan's constitution with Islamic law. This talk will analyze how recent fatwas from the Ulema Council promote a distinct brand of Islam for the nation and adjudicate agendas of secularization and reform in domestic politics, international relations, human rights, and the media.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Based on the autobiographical novel by Giorgio Bassino, this film tells the story of the narrator [Giorgio's] ...
more >> relationship with the Finzi-Continis in the northern Italian city of Ferrara.
94 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A panel on how writers create structure for documentaries which, like feature films, also begin with ...
more >> the blank page and an idea that needs to be turned into a narrative.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive ...
more >> informal setting.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A feature-length docudramatic opera about antiretroviral drug activism in South Africa and Canada (based ...
more >> loosely on Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts), and a tour-de-force of political and artistic filmmaking.
100 min. Followed by a discussion with the director.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Open studios are an opportunity to see new works by current students in the studio setting and are free ...
more >> and open to the public.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
George Bartenieff, Kathleen Chalfant, Brendan Donaldson, Najla Said and Loren Sharpe are to be featured ...
more >> in a performance of excerpts of plays from this new collection of American and British drama.
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Kevin Allison of the RISK! storytelling show hosts this free slam where anyone can put their name in ...
more >> the hat to tell a five-minute true story. They record the slam too, so all tellers have a shot at being included on an episode of the RISK! podcast.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A lecture by Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Minister for International Development of Norway for two periods, ...
more >> 1997-2000 and 2001-2005. She played a pivotal role in the Sudan peace process, leading up to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM/A) in January 2005. In 1998 Hilde F. Johnson formed the so‐called Utstein‐ group, comprising four development ministers from the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Norway, spearheading crucial changes in development policy and practice.
A talk by Katya Kronhaus, Deputy Editor of Bolshoi Gorod—the popular magazine dedicated to modern life ...
more >> and culture in Moscow—as she discusses what it is like to investigate Russia’s pressing social issues with characteristic wit and humor. Previous articles of hers have covered a wide range, from cyber culture to neglect of aging veterans. Her satirical portrayal of able-bodied citizens trying to navigate city streets in wheelchairs prompted Moscow authorities to begin building much-needed access ramps.
6:15 pm
free, no reservation required
The book is a family memoir about the author's experience growing up in New York City among a deaf extended ...
more >> family. He was born in the South Bronx of deaf parents who emigrated from Puerto Rico during the 1930s and 1940s. His first language was sign language and he was raised in a tri-cultural environment in which Spanish, English and sign were used to communicate.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Fifty years ago, Jane Jacobs stated that city planning had “stagnated” since the 1930s. “It bustles ...
more >> but it does not advance,” she wrote in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jacobs’ book inspired a rethinking of planning and urban design. Her devastating critique of urban renewal, together with her activism, helped launch a movement in opposition to the bulldozer and the wrecking ball. Historian Alison Isenberg offers a fresh perspective on planning and urban design from 1950 through the 1970s, years when design professionals challenged urban renewal and struggled to offer Americans something better. The talk focuses on San Francisco, exploring the city’s reaction to the prospect of “Manhattanization” and its efforts to forge an alternative model.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Renowned anti-apartheid activist and South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs played a ...
more >> critical role in ensuring that healing and hope were expressed by both the architecture and the art collection of the new Constitutional Court building, opened in 2004 on the site of the notorious Old Fort Prison Complex, on Johannesburg's Constitution Hill. This discussion between Justice Sachs and international-affairs expert James Hoge will include a screening of the film A Light on a Hill: A Tour of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Sachs and Hoge's conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Julie Sheehan’s most recent poetry collection is Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise. She is also the author ...
more >> of Orient Point and Thaw. Sheehan has received the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Robert H. Winner prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the Bernard F. Connors Prize from The Paris Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
The comedian, actor and star of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin shares his new ...
more >> collection of essays, musings and drawings.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
What were the real 1960s? Was it the successful struggle for Civil Rights and voting rights? Was it the ...
more >> expansion of Social Security with the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid? Was it nine years of uninterrupted prosperity and economic growth? Or, was it the eruption of riots in all of our major cities? Was it a divisive war that led to terrible domestic disunion? Was it the decade of horrifying political assassinations? Was it sex, drugs and rock "n" roll? This series of lectures will confront these issues head on. We will feature individuals of great artistic and scholarly achievement. Many were also active participants in one or more of the struggles that occurred in that decade.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
In this award-winning solo show, Robert King takes the audience on the journey of a young man growing ...
more >> up bi-racial. Energetic, hilarious, and at times quite poignant, Halfrican-American will take you into a world of both comedic characters and heart-wrenching life lessons, as that young man must ultimately decide if his ethnicity will define the man he will become.
A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that ...
more >> supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by ...
more >> a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars ...
more >> of today.
Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! Each ...
more >> week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie.
11:00 pm
free, no reservation required