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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 3, 2013?

49 free events take place on Wednesday, April 3 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 3 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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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Boots: The Height of Fashion


Join curators Julia Borden and Cathy Zaret for a tour of an exhibition by graduate students in the Fashion and Textile Studies program. Featuring creations by some of the most innovative designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—including Paul Poiret, Martin Margiela, and Christian Louboutin—the exhibition explores what makes boots the perfect accessory for the fashionable modern woman. A special section provides visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at the conservation of boots.
   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. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Other | Grammy-winning country star Gretchen Wilson signs copies of her CD Right on Time


Gretchen Wilson exploded onto the country music scene in 2004 with her smash hit “Redneck Woman” and has since scored three #1 albums. The critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter has won virtually every award for which she's been nominated, including trophies from the Grammys, ACM, CMA, AMA and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Violin Works by Bach and Others


Artists: Akiko Kobayashi, violinist and Claudia Kobayashi, pianist. Free half-hour violin recital of works from Bach, Kreisler to Ysaye.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Park Walk | The Art of the Park Tour


Walk and learn about the intricate design of the Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Juilliard Student Singers


Juilliard students share their talent with the community in a lunchtime concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two at lunchtime. Bring your lunch, bring your knitting, bring a friend. Brown bag lunches welcome! Featuring Ambrose Bierce's Civil War Stories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Pipes at One Concert


The mechanical-action pipe organ of the church was built in 1964 by the Schlicker Organ Company of Buffalo, New York, and re-built by the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, Massachusetts in 1981. It boasts the oldest pipe organ case in New York City, made of mahogany and dating from 1802, and contains 1,632 pipes. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center situated directly across the street from St. Paul’s, the organ was silenced, but has since been partially cleaned and made payable by Mann & Trupiano organ-builders from Brooklyn. The organ is featured weekly in live broadcasts on WWFM of “Bach at One” liturgical presentations by the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Today: Avi Stein, Principal Keyboardist, Trinity Baroque Orchestra
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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City Walk | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Chamber Music Masterclass – Jerome Rose, piano


Jerome Rose is Chair of the Piano Department at Mannes College, The New School for Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Irma Vallecillo, Instrumental Accompanying Master Class


Pianist Irma Vallecillo has appeared in concert with some of the most distinguished artists of our time, both vocal and instrumental, including Benny Goodman, Yo Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, David Shifrin, Julius Baker, the Cleveland Quartet, Laurence Lesser, Nathaniel Rosen, Walter Trampler, Miriam Fried, Marilyn Horne, Benita Valente, Paul Sperry, and Bethany Beardslee.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Days Like Diamonds by Boo Killebrew


Sarah’s best friend Sam is being tried for the savage murder of his girlfriend. Sarah is horrified when she realizes that she is unsure of Sam’s guilt or innocence. As details of the gruesome crime emerge, so do the truths of Sarah and Sam's friendship. DAYS LIKE DIAMONDS travels backward in time as it asks the question: How well can we ever know another person?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje


In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table" - as far from the Captain's Table as can be - with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Film | Gabriele Muccino's Oscar Nominee The Pursuit of Happyness (2006): The Limits of Charm


Starring Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor. 117 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Virgil’s Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy


Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo, and the G. and H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University, will deliver a public lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Screening | PBS Documentary: Makers: Women Who Make America


The remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | AdDRESSing Style: On Happy Chic, Eccentric Glam and Other Stories


The true iconoclasts Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan tell us about home design, window dressing, style icons, books to read, food to eat and much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Broadsides and Banjos: The Folk Music Revival


A screening of several short films on the social adaptations of American Folk Music. Discovering American Folk Music (1969) Directed by Bernard Wilets, 22 min. - A brief review of the development of American folk music from its African and English roots, as demonstrated by tracing the history of one ballad from its original British version, through its journey across America. Village Sunday (1960) Directed by Stewart Wilensky, 13 min. - A docudrama that captures the spirit of Greenwich Village on a Sunday afternoon, featuring musicians, poets, and artists in and around Washington Square Park. The Last Rally (1976) Directed by Shridhar Bapat, Mark Brownstone, Karen Edwards, and Joe Loguidice, 31 min. - Shot in Central Park on May 11, 1975, this film captures the activists who staged a free concert to recognize the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, including Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, and Patti Smith.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Freedom of Information in the Drone Age


An annual presentation in honor of Freedom of Information Day. This year’s guest speaker is Malcolm Byrne, Deputy Director and Director of Research at the National Security Archive based at George Washington University's Gelman Library.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Paintings: Richard Hickam: Four Decades


The exhibition of approximately thirty paintings and works on paper surveys this nonconformist’s underlying dedication to abstraction and confrontation, from his 1970s photorealism through recent unsparingly raw figuration. His thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery will include a group of new works epitomizing the magnitude of Hickam’s expressive capacity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Disappearance of Darkness: An Artist Dialogue


In the brief time Robert Burley spent documenting the industrial infrastructure supporting analog photography, the world embraced a digital age. Suddenly a global population abandoned their film cameras and began to create and share photographs using data-driven devices. Companies such as Kodak and Polaroid were reduced to shadows of their former selves, or worse, as they attempted to adapt. Burley traveled the world with his 4x5 field camera to record factories that were literally disappearing before his eyes, capturing this technological transition on film before it too vanished. Join Robert Burley and Alison Nordström for a discussion, about The Disappearance of Darkness, moderated by Arezoo Moseni.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Towards 2020: A New Chapter in Europe's Climate Change Policy


While the European community has worked to find a path towards economic stability and growth, the continent's financial crises have also served as a distraction from needed climate and energy policies. On January 1, 2013, the European Union stepped forward to lead the movement for needed adaptation policies, including carbon pricing and renewables, by adopting its "20-20-20" package. The new program sets European-wide targets for 2020, includes environmental targets more ambitious than the Kyoto Protocol, and impacts sectors falling under both the EU emissions trading system and renewable energy. The EU's Director of the European Commission's Climate Action Directorate, Artur Runge-Metzger, will discuss the newly adopted program. Within the EU, the Commission leads the effort to meet its 2020 targets, is responsible for international negotiations on climate, and implements the EU Emissions Trading System.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | European Unity/National Diversion in Filmmaking


Considering issues of self-representation, disjunction, as well as inclusion and exclusion within the parameters of a united continent, this panel looks at the varied ways in which the national can be considered in contemporary European filmmaking.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Film | Documentary: Josef Haslinger's Night Asylum: Home for the Homeless


The film focuses on the legendary Viennese bar, Nachtasyl, which was established by Czechoslovakian refugees who fled their homeland during the Cold War. Nachtasyl became a microcosm of Czech society in Vienna, and a meeting place for emigrants, artists, former politicians, and other intellectuals in exile.,/br> The screening will be followed by a Q&A with author & director Josef Haslinger.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Mass Murder of the Roma People during the Second World War


A lecture by FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS, President, Yahad-In-Unum Foundation; secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism; advisor to the Vatican on Jewish religion. Father Desbois has led a historic effort to locate mass graves of Jews and Roma killed during the Holocaust, identifying 2,000 mass graves and 800 extermination sites. To preserve the memory of atrocities that occurred in Eastern Europe, Desbois has recorded interviews with 2,500 elderly eyewitnesses. He will show excerpts of his filmed interviews during the two presentations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Poetry Forum: Lisa Russ Spaar / Craig Morgan Teicher


Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of Vanitas, Rough: Poems, Satin Cash, Blue Venus: Poems, and Glass Town: Poems, for which she received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000. Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic, and freelance writer. His first book of poems, Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems, was chosen by Paul Hoover as winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published by the Center for Literary Publishing. Moderated by Laura Cronk, associate director, the School of Writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Rocker Richard Hell discusses his book I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp


A pivotal voice of punk, Richard Hell will introduce his new autobiography which traces his journey from the Kentucky hills to New York City—where he came to be a poet (and encountered Ginsberg), and went on to co-found the seminal bands Television, the Heartbreakers, and the Voidoids. The book recounts Hell's misadventures among such demimonde denizens as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debbie Harry, while also tracing his search for redemption through music, poetry, and art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | The Provocative Fin de Siecle


With Larissa Bailiff, a specialist in 19th-century French art and social history. The fin-de-siècle period in Europe gave rise to an avant-garde production that led to the birth of modernism. Explore radical painting, drawing, and sculpture by artists such as Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Martin Kersels


Los Angeles artist Martin Kersels’ body of work ranges from collaborative performances with the group SHRIMPS (1984-1993) to large-scale sculptures such as Tumble Room (2001). His interest in machines, entropy, sound, and dissolution has produced work that examines the dynamic tension between failure and success, the individual and the group, and the thin line between humor and misfortune. Since 1994, Kersels’ objects and projects have been exhibited at museums both nationally and internationally, including the 1997 and 2010 Whitney Biennials, the Pompidou Center, MOCA Los Angeles, the Tinguely Museum, Kunsthalle Bern, and the Getty Museum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Blair Koenig reads from her book STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare


Join Forced Meme Productions & Tumblr to celebrate the birth of STFU, Parents with proud parents Blair Koenig and Perigee Books. Featuring literary baby shower games and musings on parents from special guests Eliot Glazer, Judy McGuire, Chris Mohney, and Julieanne Smolinski.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Celebrating 50 Years of The New York Review of Books:The Future of Literary Journalism


A conversation with Ian Buruma, Andrew Delbanco, Alma Guillermoprieto, and Zoë Heller, moderated by former >I>New York Times editor Joseph Lelyveld.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Voice Recital


Ji Hee Jeong, Soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Mary Roach reads from her book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal


The irresistible Mary Roach returns with an unforgettable exploration of the invisible realm we carry around inside. She will be joined by writer, cookbook author, and television personality Ted Allen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Days Like Diamonds by Boo Killebrew


Sarah’s best friend Sam is being tried for the savage murder of his girlfriend. Sarah is horrified when she realizes that she is unsure of Sam’s guilt or innocence. As details of the gruesome crime emerge, so do the truths of Sarah and Sam's friendship. DAYS LIKE DIAMONDS travels backward in time as it asks the question: How well can we ever know another person?
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Lecture | SciCafe: Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria


Enjoy cocktails, cutting-edge science, and conversation at this popular after-hours series, which takes place on the first Wednesday of every month. Molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler from Princeton University researches a process called quorum sensing, in which bacteria communicate with one another to coordinate their behavior and even mount attacks on higher organisms, including humans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Stand Close: A Conversation on Censorship in Performance Art


Examining the way rage is filtered and re-thought in the works of contemporary queer and feminist artists, this conversation explores manifestations and responses to the thematic of rage in our current moment. "Stand Close" co-curator Katherine Brewer Ball (PhD Candidate, Performance Studies) artists RJ Messineo (co-curator) and Guadalupe Rosales, and catalogue contributors Corrine Fitzpatrick, and R. E. H. Gordon discuss the promises and pitfalls of thinking with rage as a meditation, an inspiration, a medium, and a process.,/br> Moderated by Tavia N'yong'o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Problem with “Fundamentalism” (and Other Liberal Myths about Religion)


This panel seeks to generate a conversation on how scholarly and popular discourses about nonliberal religious movements shape and constrain scholarly projects. To write about religious mobilizations in the current moment is to enter a discursive terrain already shaping the types of questions possible to ask and imagine. How are scholars responding to this discursive terrain in their work? Please come and join the discussion. A reception will precede the meeting at 6:00 pm. Panelists: Sophie Bjork-James, CUNY Grad Center; Omri Elisha, CUNY, Queens College; Ayala Fader, Fordham University; Rudolf Gaudio, SUNY, Purchase College
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Jazz | Cafe Jazz


Students perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Opera | Discover Opera! And Amato Opera-in-Brief present Massenet's Cendrillon


A College Division Performance; Gordon Ostrowski, Coordinator
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Tactus Ensemble performs works by Boulez and others


Program: SCHWANTNER Music of Amber BIRTWISTLE Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicase Perpetuum BOULEZ Derive 1 MERRYMAN New Work LIGETI Kammerkonzert for 13 Instruments Jeffrey Milarsky, Director
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Maria Isabel Perez Dobarro, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | The Nassim Al Saba Choir


Nassim Al Saba Choir from the American University at Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with performances by the NYU Jazz Choir, Madrigal Singers, Men's Glee Club, and University Singers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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