free things to do in New York City
Free events for Thursday, 04/05/12
<

April 2012

>
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
Free Events, Free Things to Do in New York City!  Read More

Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 5, 2012?

91 free events take place on Thursday, April 5 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 5 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.
Join the Club!

Go!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.

So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!

91 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 5, 2012

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Forum | A View into the Future: Innovations in Technology and Design for High-Performance Buildings


Moderator: Constantine Kontokosta, PhD, PE, Clinical Associate Professor, Schack Institute of Real Estate, Director - Center for the Sustainable Built Environment
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 am
Free

Conference | Art Practice, Activism and Pedagogy: Some Feminist Views


The conference will consider feminist art as a zone of multi-disciplinary art production associated with a radical critique of gendered power relations in society. Participants will discuss what it means to be a feminist artist today within a extended range of diverse political engagement. Speakers include Susan Bee, A. K. Burns, Audrey Chan, Maureen Connor, Caitlin Rueter & Suzanne Stroebe and Ulrike Müller.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
9:00 am
Free

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
Join the Club!
Go!
11:00 am
$6

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" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
11:15 am
Free

Workshop | Knitting and Crochet Group


Bring your current project, your questions, your needles and your yarn to the Knitters' Table every Tuesday. Beginners and experienced knitters are welcome - crochet, too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
11:30 am
Free

Workshop | How I Learned Not to Hate Networking and Not Have to Have a Personality Transplant


Statistics tell us that well over half of all people who find jobs do it through networking. Whether it is at an event, with people we know or over the phone, the idea of asking people to help us is horrible. Coach Win Sheffield demonstrates how to make networking productive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join a free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Two Thresholds of the Limit: Concept, Tendency, and Exterior in Uno Kozo


A lecture by Gavin Walker, PhD Candidate, Cornell University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:20 pm
Free

Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


Emily gives a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

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
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
$6

Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined


Life is not lived in black and white: reality may have the tinge of dreams and dreams an air of reality. This provocative tension exists between the experiential nature of early American folk art and the fantastical imagery it often displays—between what is real and what is imagined. The same is true of the work of contemporary self-taught artists, which may introduce unique—and sometimes puzzling—expressions that illuminate the iconoclastic nature that is the flip side of the collective American psyche. The viewer is placed in the peculiar but exhilarating position of deciding for him- or herself whether the artwork expresses a disjuncture with reality or an uninhibited embracing of interior life. After all, what is more true, the picture that looks real or the picture that feels real; the observer or the observed?
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Miss Julie by August Strindberg


A 60-minute abridged reading of the 1888 classic play about love, lust, class and the battle of the sexes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

Other | Scrabble Mania


All levels of play welcome. Please bring with you...your Scrabble set (be sure it has all 100 tiles!), a Scrabble dictionary and, of course, a love of the game!
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

Conference | Internal Enemies and Dirty Wars in the Global 1970s


A conference which brings together various scholars from Latin America, Europe and the United States. The conference will reflect on the question of the "internal enemy" as well as on the so-called dirty wars developed during the global 1970s, which served to exclude and criminalize certain groups within and across different nations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Quiltmaking Workshop


Learn or hone your quiltmaking skills in this four-session workshop. All materials are provided and participants will be guided step-by-step through the process by an experienced instructor. The resulting quilts will be put on display in the library.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Digital Photos S.O.S.


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to Save, Organize, and Share (S.O.S.) your digital photos. Students are required to have mouse and keyboard skills as well as being proficient in both Windows and Internet Explorer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
2:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join a free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
2:30 pm
Free

Lecture | Managing Carbon on Land in the Context of Climate Change


A lecture by Richard Houghton, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Oboe Recital


With Melissa Hooper.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
4:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Discrimination and Justice: Beyond Affirmative Action


Deepak Nayyar, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, will give a lecture titled "Discrimination and Justice: Beyond Affirmative Action." Earlier in his career, Dr. Nayyar taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
4:00 pm
Free

Performance | Star Quality: Coward & Co., featuring 5-Time Tony Nominee Dana Ivey


Simon Callow, Edward Hibbert, Dana Ivey and Steve Ross perform Noel Coward works. STAR QUALITY: COWARD & Co., a selection of the best of Coward, including scenes, songs, verses and a play excerpt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Talk | Beaded Moccasin-Making Demonstration


Beaded moccasin-making demonstration with Cody Harjo. Visitors are invited to interact with Cody Harjo by observing, listening and asking questions. Please note: This is not a workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Paintings: Robert Neffson's Urban Landscapes


Neffson (born December 28, 1949) is an American painter currently known for his street scenes of various cities around the world, as well as his early still lifes and figure paintings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Got Clutter? Join the Clutter Support Group


Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone. Join the NYPL Clutter Support Group, an educational support group for individuals who are struggling with clutter and disorganization. The Clutter Support Group will be a member-based group facilitated by organizing expert AJ Miller. The group will meet on alternating Thursdays to address clutter and disorganization related issues and offer support, information, tips and techniques to combat clutter and become better organized. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:30 pm
Free

Film | Italian Cinema: Francesco Rosi's The Moment of Truth (1965)


A visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelín. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s action, as close to death as possible. 107 min. Panel discussion to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:30 pm
Free

Concert | Student Trumpet Recital


Enjoy an evening of entertainment with trumpet player Jason Benjamin, who will perform his Masters recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | New York University Photography & Imaging Exhibition


Artists: David Marc Allen, Andrea Bejarano, Stephanie Berland, Laura Bluher, Clara Braddick, William Carrà, Mark Dalessandro, Arielle Delfino, Robert Casey Drake, Dana Fields, Vladimir Gintoff, Joshua Haunschild, Logan Elizabeth Howard, Melodie Jeng, Jennifer Kinney, Kristina E. Knipe, Isaac Lee, Alison Lentz, Kate McLane, Elizabeth Shrier, Evan Simon & Madeline Cottingham, and Kathryn Whitney.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino signs copies of his book Control the Crazy: My Plan to Stop Stressing, Avoid Drama, and Maintain Inner Cool


Attention all Jersey Shore fans! Come and meet Vinny Guadagnino as he discusses his first book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Adult Yoga


Open-level yoga with a certified instructor! Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Carceral Politics in Palestine and Beyond: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison


This panel will explore comparative approaches to Israeli prisons and detention. PANELISTS: -Judith Butler, English and Comparative Literature -Angela Davis, Prison Activist and History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz -Mai Masri, Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Beirut, Lebanon -Lena Meari, Center for Palestine Studies Fellow
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Video | Charles Dennis' Echo, a Video of Downtown Performances


A new work of video by interdisciplinary artist and PS122 co-founder, Charles Dennis. This film revisits archival footage of historic downtown live performances, 1980-2010, and collages them within a 3-channel audio/video display.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Clint Hill reads from his book Mrs. Kennedy and Me


Clint Hill, the former secret service agent who raced to President Kennedy's car when shots rang out in Dallas in 1963, talks about his new book, which focuses on his years protecting the life of an iconic First Lady.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Double Bass Recital


With Jonathan Davies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Fernando Orellana & Melinda McDaniel's The Other Side, a Show by Husband-and-Wife Artists


This two-person show features a pair of artists who are husband and wife, and work closely in their studio in Troy, New York. This dynamic vocational and familial relationship informs the bodies of work that will be exhibited in The Other Side. While aesthetically and conceptually different, both compilations of art are inspired by the other. Created at the same time, the artists foster and encourage direction and ideas, harmoniously complimenting each other’s works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Fred Weintraub reads from his book Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me: From the Man Behind a Half-Century of Music, Movies and Martial Arts


Best known as the producer of Enter the Dragon, Fred Weintraub discusses his memoir.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | In the Urban Crisis


A lecture series exploring urban issues around the world. This lecture welcomes Andrew Ross, a writer and professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Intro to Final Cut Pro


Everything from MTV music videos to Sundance films to Hollywood blockbusters is being edited on Apple's video editing software Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. This seminar will show you how you can start editing your own film and video projects on your Mac desktop or laptop. This seminar is designed for people who have little to no experience in Final Cut Pro/Express.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Painting: David Lyle's Misbehaving


A new body of work by artist David Lyle. Working from found vintage and vernacular photographs, Lyle seamlessly composes works that harken back to 1950’s and 1960’s America - not as they were, but skewed and reimagined by the artist. David Lyle attended the University of California at Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. His work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, and in Japan and covered in publications such as New York Magazine, Modern Painter, New American Paintings, American Artist, Hi-Fructose, Proximity Magazine and Coast Magazine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Solo Show: Marilyn Henrion's Complexity


Mixed media works inspired by the natural world with references to science and poetry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Sonatenabend Recital


Pianists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform sonata repertoire in collaboration with student instrumentalists
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Structured Reliefs: Dusty Boynton's On Edge


Boynton's creative oeuvre continues to have no boundaries. She has created a new modus operandi. This exhibition is primarily comprised of structured reliefs and mixed media paintings. Boynton's work continues to have the inner child, the devilish pranksters and/or the sinister interpreter, as in her earlier works. Continuing her love of drawing with paint, she is now literally cutting out components of her paintings, placing those extracted parts on two and three dimensional surfaces. Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY; Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ; and Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, NY. Selected group exhibition exhibitions include In the Garden at Barbara Krakow in Boston, MA; New Prints, 2002 at the International Print Center, New York, NY; Book, Box, Word, Volume II at the University of Florida and North Miami Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Art in America, The New York Times, Arts Magazine, and New Art Examiner. Shown: "Town Meeting," 2011, oil on linen, 48 x 72 inches
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Anatomy of Campaign Finance: Money's Powerful Influence on US Politics and Policy


The power of campaign donations to shape political decisions is front and center in the 2012 presidential election. Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations, mega-donors and unions to invest vast resources in candidates' campaigns, has been called an undemocratic giveaway to social and economic elites. Does their growing electoral power undermine the public interest, or simply increase the public visibility of candidates' messages and influence? What are the long-term implications for our political culture and public policy? And what are the prospects for meaningful change? Featuring: Jacob Hacker, director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and professor of political science at Yale University, co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; and Joseph Hagan, contributing writer to Vanity Fair and New York magazine; author of The Coming Tsunami of Slime: How Super-PACs, vulnerable candidates, and armies of mercenaries will converge to create the ugliest campaign ever.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Critique of Financial Fetishism: Machiavelli and Marx


A lecture by Jérémie Barthas, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Talk | The Husband-and-Wife Team behind Health Ceramics


Heath Ceramics is one of the few remaining mid-­century American potteries, which has been making tableware and tile for a half-­century in Sausalito, CA. Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey, who purchased Heath Ceramics in 2003, have a mission to sustain the company by placing an emphasis on design and handcrafted techniques in the reinvigoration of the company’s designer‐maker legacy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:15 pm
Free

Other | Edwin Booth Award Ceremony Honoring Split Britches


The Edwin Booth Award was established in 1983 by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association to honor a person, organization, or company in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the New York City/American Theatre and Performance Community. This year’s awardee is the groundbreaking feminist theatre company Split Britches, who will be present to receive the award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Screening | First Run Festival


Films by students. Showtimes at 6:30pm and 8:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
$3

Discussion | Gujarat Massacre Ten Years On


Ten years after the attacks against Muslims in Gujarat, India, in which 2,000 Muslims were killed and more than 100,000 displaced, the victims of the attacks continue to seek justice. Please join the South Asia Solidarity Initiative for a panel discussion with Arastu Jowher, a youth activist from Ahmedabad and Smita Narula, Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University. The panel will be moderated by Rupal Oza, Associate Professor of Geography, Hunter College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | MS PowerPoint 1 Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Photographs: Anja Hitzenberger's Take-Out


This series of photographs by Anja Hitzenberger reveals a visually and viscerally overloaded fast-food culture that may make some mouths water and other bellies ache. The aggressive graphics and display, offset by the stall workers seeming nonchalance, offer insight into some contradictions in contemporary Chinese culture. Hitzenberger has effectively captured the flavor of the time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990–2010


With Jennifer M. Katanic. This MOMA survey of prints, books, multiples, and ephemera examines the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium over the last two decades. From 1990 through today, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination between vernacular modes and post-conceptual strategies. From the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artists’ books and ephemera, prints, both in innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. The exhibition brings together around 200 works drawn substantially from MoMA’s extensive collection of prints and books, with the addition of several important loans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Sarah Van Arsdale reads from her novel Grand Isle


Summer’s idyll is shattered by a tragedy, setting in motion upheaval, mistrust, and deception among the people of Grand Isle. The summer people from Manhattan are forced to re-examine their friendships, their marriages, and their lives, and tensions between the summering teens and their year-round counterparts spike with the pressure of a terrible secret that could mean the ruin of one of them. At the book’s end, the summer closes with the human maps of Grand Isle re-drawn, alliances shifted, and the characters forever changed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | The Fetishism of Colonial Commodities and the Intimacies of Four Continents


A lecture by Lisa Lowe, Comparative Literature, UC San Diego. This lecture revisits Marx’s fetishism of commodities and nineteenth-century liberal policies of “free trade” in relation to products (like tea, sugar, cottons, and opium) that expressed the colonial and imperial relations between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Unterzakhn with Leela Corman


Unterzakhn - Yiddish for "underthings" - is a mesmerizing, heartbreaking story of immigrant life on New York's LES at the turn of the 20th-century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Where Is the 'I' in Public?: Amelia Rosselli in Translation


A musician, musicologist, and self-defined “poet of research,” Amelia Rosselli (Paris 1930– Rome 1996) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist Italy between France, England, and the United States, Rosselli was driven to express the hopes and devastations of the postwar epoch through her demanding and defamiliarizing lines. On the occasion of the publication of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012), the book's editor and translator, Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago), will present aspects of her work on the formal and political research of Rosselli's oeuvre in conversation with Teresa Fiore (Montclair State University) and Gian Maria Annovi (University of Denver).
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Women Writers of the Diaspora: Monica A. Hand


Poet Monica A. Hand reads from her recent collection Me and Nina, praised by one critic as “deeply satisfying, and unforgettable.” In manuscript, it received a 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. Hand’s poems have been published in Naugatuck River Review, The Sow’s Ear, Drunken Boat, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade. Hand earned an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation at Drew University and is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti. In her poems, she explores the nomadic life as an economic, political, spiritual, and artistic survival strategy. Moderated by Celesti Colds Fechter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Reading | 3 Writers: Adam Levin / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh / Diane Williams


Fiction readings by recent McSweeney’s Books authors Adam Levin ("Hot Pink," March 2012) and Diane Williams ("Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty," January 2012, pictured). Also featuring Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, whose report from the first weeks of Occupy Wall Street will appear in Issue 40 of "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern."
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Theater | Neverland Industries, a New Play by Daniel Welser Carroll


Retiring CEO Barry "Little Bill" Williams inexplicably thrusts one of his firm's junior copywriters, Michael Davies, into the spotlight during a company retreat on Martha's Vineyard. Careers and reputations are secretly at stake at this casually decadent business summit, where all of that hidden information is ritualistically passed from the vengeful CEO into dangerous hands that tremble from amibition. What follows is a psychological battle of wits between two similar men at vastly different points in their lives set in a fantastical backdrop of corporate greed and white-collar evil that occurs in plain sight. A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | Advance Screening of Season 6 of Art 21


Who and what limits our freedom of expression? In what ways do cultural differences affect our understanding of art and other forms of communication? How do an artist's process and choice of medium affect our perception of his or her work? This episode features artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Ask Roulette with Kurt Anderson, Julie Klausner, and Maria Popova


Ask Roulette is an unscripted conversation in which participants ask and answer questions of each other in front of a live audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Club: Blindness by Jose Saramago


A lively discussion of the Nobel Prize winner's novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Senior Piano Recital


Featuring Violetta Koss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Eric Erlandson discusses his book Letters to Kurt


Host Katherine Lanpher talks to Hole co-founder and lead guitarist Erlandson about his book, a series of ruminations about the suicide of his friend Kurt Cobain. Former bandmate Auf der Maur performs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Performance | Lou Reads: Live Comedy Show


For two years, King Lou Fernandez has been exploring the darkest regions of the Internet for his Podcast: Lou Reads the Internet for YOU! Join Lou and his Special Guests as they share Lou’s best and worst “Net Treasures.” in this first ever LIVE SHOW! Warning: This show will make not make you feel good about humanity but it will make you laugh, cringe and.. just maybe… barf on the person in front of you.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
$5

Concert | Nylon Wound: A Classical Guitar Concert


Nylon Wound is Gregory Askins and Joseph Parisi, a musical duo dedicated to promoting the classical guitar. They perform original compositions and arrangements for two guitars in addition to the standard repertory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Peter Cameron reads from his book Coral Glynn


Cameron presents the unpredictable and moving story of two people whose paths converge and divert from one another through circumstances wholly out of their control. Coral Glynn, single and utterly alone in the world in 1950s England, is a victim of circumstance who must navigate the unexpected cards she’s been dealt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Miss Julie by August Strindberg


A 60-minute abridged reading of the 1888 classic play about love, lust, class and the battle of the sexes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poets Traci Brimhall and Carolyn Forché read their work


This reading celebrates the publication of Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall. Forché writes that the book “is poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radiant with lyric intelligence.” Brimhall’s first book, Rookery, won the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Award. Carolyn Forché is the author of five books of poems, including the forthcoming In the Lateness of the World. She is director of the Lannan Center for Poetry and Poetics at Georgetown University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Art of Appropriation: Between Literature and Music


Taking as a starting point a short excerpt from the archives of the Collège international de philosophie (an excerpt in which Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy briefly discuss the notion of responsibility), this event will focus on the concept of appropriation, approaching it from a philosophical, literary, and musical point of view.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Academic Intellect and the Public Sphere: The Case for Historians in Public


With Thomas Bender (New York University). Since 1992, this seminar has brought together historians, sociologists, political scientists, literary critics, and other scholars to discuss current research on diverse cultural, social, and political theses, especially those that stimulate comparative perspectives. The seminar focuses primarily but by no means exclusively on Europe and the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Screening | Brazilian Cinema: Pedro Urano's Hu Enigma (2011)


Pedro Urano's meditation on architecture and the human conditions is first and foremost a cinematic portrait of the University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, a structure that uniquely embodies modernism's utopic project and it's ruin. Urano's camera alternates between fluidity and stasis, juxtaposing tableaus of decay with the daily activity of a working hospital. 72 min. Followed by a Q&A with Ed Keller and Carla Leita (AUM Studio), moderated by Anthony Titus.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Jazz | Cafe Jazz


Presented by the Jazz Arts Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Screening | Russian Documentary: Lise Birk Pedersen's Putin's Kiss (2012)


Nashi is an increasingly popular political youth organization with direct ties to the Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support the current political system by creating a future elite among the brightest and most loyal Russian teenagers. But the organization also works to prevent the political opposition from spreading their views among young people. 85 min. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Oleg Kashin, the 2012 Paul Klebnikov Fund Journalism Fellow featured in Putin's Kiss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Singers and Pianists Seminar


From the Accompanying Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Student Composers' Concert


From the Composition Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Upperwest Chamber Music 2011-2012, Concert 13


The Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music Series presents College chamber music ensembles in a series performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Master Class | Piano Master Class


With Robert Sherman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:45 pm
Free

Jazz | College Jazz Piano Recital


With Christopher Ziemba.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Piano Recital


With Oskar Jezior.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Film | Finnish Cinema: Aki Kaurismäki's Drifting Clouds (1996)


A married couple struggles with the repercussions of unexpected unemployment in this wry comedy drama. 96 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Pace University's Annual Repertory Season


The Actors Studio Drama School presents its annual Repertory Season at Pace University in five weeks of theater designed to introduce our graduating students to the professional world and the public in fully professional productions of the work they have created during their three years of study. Here you will witness a weekly series of scenes, one-act plays and full-length plays, some of them written by our playwrights, and all of them directed by our directors and acted by our actors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Guitar Recital


Enjoy the beauty of the strings--and a free evening out--with the graduation recital of talented guitarist William Pearson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Thursday Night Meditation


Ganesh Das leads a therapeutic meditation practice. This healing Satsang is designed and blessed by his gurus and founders of the method, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Through this guided practice open to all levels, one learns to find a comfortable meditative seat, be still and focus the attention on the breath and a mantra. One learns to create space and calmness in the mind and body, amidst the daily chaos of life. This class provides a safe environment for the community to gather and openly discuss spiritual and every day aspects of life through a candid Q & A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...

Performance | Kamilya Jubran, Palestinian Singer


Kamilya Jubran is a Palestinian musician, composer, singer, and performer. From 1982 to 2002, Kamilya along with the Jerusalem based artist organization Sabreen represented a deep and dynamic artistic-political voice and process that created a new style of a modern Arabic song. In 2002 Jubran moved to Europe and has found herself constantly traveling between different places, cities, and countries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:30 pm
Free

Concert | College Accompanying Recital


Featuring Lindsay Woodward.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
9:00 pm
Free

Performance | Comedy Show: Comics Must Wash Hands


Jeff Cerulli and Adam Glyn’s long running east village stand up comedy show is back and some would say better than ever in a new venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
No cover

Theater | Atalanta K.O., a New Play by D.L. Siegel


Atalanta is a fearsome and strikingly beautiful amateur boxer, hungry for a professional career. Abandoned at birth, Atalanta trusts no one save her faithful trainer. But when she goes head-to-head with "The Boar of Bushwick" in a highly publicized fight, Atalanta attracts the attention of her long-absent father - who will stop at nothing to get her back. How does a woman whose life depends on her fearlessness contend with the one person in the world who makes her feel vulnerable? A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
9:30 pm
Free

Performance | Comedy: The Scene


The Scene is a weekly showcase of improvised one act plays. Each week the show features New York’s top improvisers from The PIT, Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Baby Wants Candy, Second City and more. The Scene is produced and hosted by Dan Hodapp and Micah Sherman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
9:30 pm
$5

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
11:00 pm
$5 cover, $5...

Performance | New Team Lunacy Comedy Show


All you need to do is show up. Don’t have an improv group? We’ll put you in one! Have a team then bring them down! Five teams get to play for ten minutes each, and everyone has fun. Work on your skills and meet some great new people. New Team Lunacy, hosted by Erick Hellwig.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
11:00 pm
Free
Complimentary Tickets

to shows, concerts ... (CFT Deals!)

Broadway | Broadway Show!

Regular Price: $101
CFT Member Price: $0.00

Classical Music | Piano Works by Chopin and More

Regular Price: $30
CFT Member Price: $0.00
Join the Club!

Go!