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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 17, 2013?

46 free events take place on Wednesday, April 17 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 17 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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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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: Fashion and Technology


Join Ariele Elia or Emma McClendon, curators, for a tour of this revelatory History Gallery exhibition, which explores fashion’s long engagement with technology. Aniline dyes, the sewing machine, synthetic fibers, and the zipper—all were technological advances that sent fashion in new directions. In recent years, designers have made technology central to their collections, while wireless, sewable circuitry and fashion design software have made cyberspace the new nexus of technology and fashion.
   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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Discussion | The Role of the Arts in Housing Developments


Following the opening of the new exhibition, The Vienna Model, the show’s curatorial advisors Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber will moderate a lunchtime talk which will include Angelika Fitz, Michael Rieper, Denisse Andrade Arevalos, Nader Vossoughian, and Michael Zinganel. The role of art and its potential to mediate (through cultural production) the relationship between individuals and politics on one hand, and to actively intervene in social relations, knowledge, and the city on the other, will be the topic of this discussion. The very specific situation in Vienna will be taken as a point of departure in order to explore comparisons with New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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

Concert | The Juilliard Lab Orchestra


Juilliard students share their talent with the community in a lunchtime concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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!
   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: Justin Bischof, Concert Organist, Conductor and Composer
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Performance | Young and In Shakespeare


Through recitation and performance, the teenage finalists of the New York City English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition rediscover Shakespeare's past and present. These high school students - hailing from public, charter, independent and parochial schools across the five Boroughs, as well as Long Island and Westchester County - prove that these 400-year-old words and themes still have the power to engage, teach and entertain us all, young and old.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 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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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Thoreau, and Other Assholes by Kyle Warren


There are about two hundred thousand words in the English language. And not one of them describes what’s about to happen to Jean De Bernis. For once, Jean might actually be happy. He’s a college professor, his partner’s pregnant, and the novel that’s going to put him on the literary map is about to be published. But on the day his book is released, he discovers that another author has published a novel identical to his. Forced to fend off accusations of plagiarism, paranoia and worse, Jean fights to maintain a shred of ownership over his work, his words, and, eventually, every thought in his head.
   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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Lecture | Anthropology of Brazilian Cinema


Erika Thomas was born in 1964 in Brazil. She settled in France in the 1980s, obtaining her PhD in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (Paris 3, 2001) and her HDR (Habilitation) in anthropology ofmedia (Strasbourg, 2011). She is Professor at the Lille-based Universit Catholique de Lille, and an associate member of Research Institute in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (IRCAV) at Universit Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has also taught at Universit Paris 3and Universidade Estadual do Ceara (Fortaleza, Brazil). Her main research domains include: images, history and society, cinema and television and telenovelas (transdisciplinary approach) in Brazilian society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Jonghun Park, piano 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Marcelina Suchocka, Percussion 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Caroline Dunigan, Soprano 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Ga Won Han, Flute 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Ellen Teufel, Soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Violaine Melancon, Violin Master Class


Violaine Melançon is a member of the Peabody Trio and serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, where the trio has been ensemble-in-residence since 1987. Since winning the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1989, the Peabody Trio has established itself as an important presence in the chamber music world as vivid interpreters of the classics of the repertoire, advocates for new music, and dedicated teachers and mentors to a generation of young musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 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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Author Reading | Elaine Heffner reads from her book goodenoughmothering


Educators and mothers are invited to the event with psychotherapist and educator Elaine Heffner, who discusses her new book, goodenoughmothering, selections from goodenoughmothering.com, her blog that reflects and addresses parents' concerns.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult


Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Havana Film Festival Honors


6:00PM - EICTV - Films from the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. U.S. PREMIERE (In Spanish with English subtitles) 7:20PM - EL FAUSTO CRIOLLO (The Creole Faust, 2011). Directed by Fernando Birri, Argentina/Cuba, 90 min. U.S. PREMIERE (In Spanish with English subtitles) In Argentina in the middle of the XIX century, the gauchos Anastasio el Pollo and his friend Don Laguna find themselves sitting on top of the knotty roots of a lone ombú, the largest tree in the world. Along with the gin and yerba mate, Anastasio shares with Don Laguna his impressions of the performance of "Faust" by Goethe that was presented in the old Colón Theater in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1866. In his account, Anastasio transposes the images, characters and situations from his own life. Introduced by Rafael Rosal, Director of EICTV. This event will be in ENGLISH.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Petra Giloy-Hirts discusses her book Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album - Vintage Prints from the Sixties with the actor's daughter Marin Hopper


Author Petra Giloy-Hirtz appears with Marin Hopper, daughter of legendary actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper, to discuss the stunning new book. They explore Dennis Hopper’s incredible and diverse career, delving into the recently rediscovered photographs which are the subject of the book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poets Frederick Feirstein and David Dalton Yezzi read their work


Frederick Feirstein has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. A dozen of his plays have been produced in New York and other cities. He is a member of the Playwright/Directors Unit at Actors Studio. David Dalton Yezzi is a poet, actor, and serves as the executive editor of The New Criterion. His most recent book of poetry, Birds of the Air, was published in February, 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Salsa: A New York Mixture Featuring Grammy Nominee Bobby Sanabria


Grammy-nominated bandleader Bobby Sanabria leads his ensemble in presenting a musical history of Latinos in New York, from Mambo to Latin Jazz to Salsa, and much in between.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Pushing Boundaries in the Creative Process


With panelists Arthur Aviles, Colleen Thomas, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Jennifer Wright Cook, and more. Moderated by Moira Brennan. Much value is placed on the idea of artwork that is at the cutting edge, with the words "pushing boundaries" emphasized in grants, applications and curating language. This conversation examines what might be meant by "pushing boundaries"? How important is it in the creative process, and its outcome? Is the point of view of the artist different from the one of the audience when determining something as "pushing boundaries"? What assumptions or cultural contexts are assumed to establish these boundaries? Are there other ways to value contemporary work?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | Italian Art after World War II


Nicholas Cullinan, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will discuss the vital post-World War II artistic developments and exchanges that put Italy on the international map.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Nature of the Beast by Brandon Crone


A young man discovers his uncle's secrets - including the one tied up in the basement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Poetry Forum: Wayne Koestenbaum


Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of many books, most recently, the poetry collection Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background, as well as the nonfiction works The Anatomy of Harpo Marx and Humiliation. He is the winner of the “Discovery”/The Nation poetry contest, a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Galley Slave's Dilemma: The Life and Work of Juan Latino


Distinguished scholars and translators discuss the life and work of Juan Latino. Born in 1518, this African ex-slave was the first person of sub-Saharan African descent to publish a book of poems in a “Western” language. Focusing on the “Austriad,” Latino’s poem about the epoch-defining Battle of Lepanto, this conversation unpacks the literary text in order to explore issues of identity and translation. Andrew Lemons is completing his dissertation in the department of comparative literature at Princeton. Sarah Spence is professor of classics at the University of Georgia. Elizabeth Wright is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Tweeting and Eating: How Social Media has Changed the Way We Eat


Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Yelp...never before has it been easier to hunt down delicious food and share your own discoveries. This panel discussion hosted by Blondie and Alexandra Penfold, co-authors of New York à la Cart: Recipes and Stories from the Big Apple's Best Food Trucks explores the intersection of food and social media, the rise of online food communities and the explosion of New York's food truck scene. Guest panelists include: Thomas DeGeest, owner and founder of Wafels & Dinges Belgian Waffle truck, Ed Levine, founder of SeriousEats.com, Chef Adam Sobel, owner and founder of The Cinnamon Snail Vegan Truck, and Melissa Zhang, Ruskin International Communications Senior Account Executive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Artist Talk: Nayland Blake


Nayland Blake is an artist, writer and educator. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem, LA MoCa, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the DeYoung Museum, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furstr


The Upper East Side Reading Group reconvenes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | For the Orphans: The Secret History of West End Presbyterian Church, New York University and the Butlers of New York


Presented by Jonah Baker based on extensive research for his novel “The Raven's Lullaby", a work of historical fiction that explores the challenges and glories of New York City to be published in late 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Kate Atkinson reads from her book Life After Life


Kate Atkinson, the award-winning author of Case Histories, explores the unusual lives (and deaths) of Ursula Todd, who is born, dies and is reborn repeatedly in the early 20th century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Music of Thelonius Monk


Directed by Steve Cardenas. Show times at 7pm and 9pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Percival Everett reads from his book Percival Everett by Virgil Russell


A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Thoreau, and Other Assholes by Kyle Warren


There are about two hundred thousand words in the English language. And not one of them describes what’s about to happen to Jean De Bernis. For once, Jean might actually be happy. He’s a college professor, his partner’s pregnant, and the novel that’s going to put him on the literary map is about to be published. But on the day his book is released, he discovers that another author has published a novel identical to his. Forced to fend off accusations of plagiarism, paranoia and worse, Jean fights to maintain a shred of ownership over his work, his words, and, eventually, every thought in his head.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Marten Persiel's This Ain't California (2012)


A hymn to the subversive power of vitality, this fast-paced documentary takes us on a trip through the strange unknown world of the 'Rollbrettfahrer' as skateboarders were known in the GDR (East Germany), a country where besides those loyal to the regime, there was also an avowed political resistance. 90 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | College Voice Recital


Flora Kirou, soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Master Class | Jazz Master Class: Kenny Werner, Piano


The Jazz Master Class Series continues to foster a dialogue between the music world's most significant and inspired artists and students from the Jazz Studies Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Songbook: First-Year Singers


First-year singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts perform song repertoire in recital with faculty pianists from the Marcus Institute and Collaborative Piano Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Wreckless Wednesday Comedy Show


A free monthly comedy show hosted by comedian Aminah Imani.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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