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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on August 15, 2009?

49 free events take place on Saturday, August 15 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 August 15 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 August . 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 Saturday, August 15, 2009

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Other | Seining the River


Find out what lives in the waters under the Manhattan Bridge. Join experts using a 30-foot seining net to catch fish and other remarkable East River creatures. Families and kids can take a good look at the fish before releasing them back to their homes and keep a tally of our catch. Field guides and identification keys provided. Previous catches have included flounder, striped bass, Atlantic tomcod, bay anchovy, green crabs, blue crabs, shrimp, comb jellies, silversides, and pipefish. Space is available for 30 kids, ages 4 through 12, plus their parents/guardians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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City Walk | Hudson River-Ellis Island Walk


Easy-moderate walk along the Hudson to Battery Park. A short ride to Ellis Island to visit the Immigration Museum and the American Family Immigration History Center, where you can search there or on-line for 25,000,000 immigrants, passengers and crew members who sailed into New York Harbor from 1892 to 1924. Bring water and lunch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Kayaking on the Hudson


Join 20-minute instructional paddles, and explore the Hudson River first hand. Please wear a bathing suit or shorts and a t-shirt, and know how to swim.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Volunteer Gardening


Help beautify the Park and get great outdoor exercise.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Walking tour of Brooklyn’s Park Slope


You’ll see what some call the “Princess of Prospect Place,” Queen Anne style mansions and gorgeous brownstones. Tour will last approximately 2 hours. Bring water and wear comfortable shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Fishing in the Hudson River


Catch-and-release fishing gives anyone and everyone the chance to fish. It’s an appropriate and fun activity for those as young as five. All of the necessary supplies including rods, reels and bait, as well as complete instructions, are provided. Fishing poles are provided on a first come, first served basis, with a half-hour limit when others are waiting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Other | Fishing in the Hudson River


Catch-and-release fishing gives anyone and everyone the chance to fish. It’s an appropriate and fun activity for those as young as five. All of the necessary supplies including rods, reels and bait, as well as complete instructions, are provided. Fishing poles are provided on a first come, first served basis, with a half-hour limit when others are waiting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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City Walk | Bedford-Stuyvesant Walk


A two-hour narrated tour of Bedford-Stuyvesant, once the pre-Revolutionary town of Bedford. See magnificent churches, brownstones, historic Grant Square, former cemetery sites, and local institutions, and learn history of this area founded by the Dutch in the 17th century. Be on time and bring water. Rain cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$3

Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$5

Tour | Garden Tour


This tour highlights the history, design and unique plantings of the 70-year-old Garden. Led by Garden Staff.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lesson | Healthy Cooking Demonstration


A Farmers Market demo with Chef Emily Peterson, who has worked at The Cleaver Company and Green Table Restaurant in Manhattan’s Chelsea Market. Gleaning whatever looks the freshest at the market, Peterson will demonstrate how to make healthy and affordable family meals, offer money-saving tips and give plenty of cooking advice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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City Walk | Historic Orchard Street Tour


Take a journey down historic Orchard Street and discover the origins of New York's first discount retail district. The two-hour tour highlights the integral role that the shopping district has played in the history and development of the Lower East Side.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Hike | Rockaway Park Beach Hike & Swim


Easy pace, 5-7 hours. Walk boardwalk from Beach 116th St. to end. Bring lunch, water, and bathing suit. Rain cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Skate Boarding and Roller Blading


The Skate Park is open to all skate boarders and roller bladers willing to sign a waiver and wear proper protective gear. Individuals under 18 years of age must have a waiver signed by a parent or guardian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


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11:00 am
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Dance Lesson | Capoeira in the Park


Capoeira is a lively martial art that originated in Brazil over 450 years ago. Self-defense techniques are concealed by graceful dance moves and spectacular acrobatics set to music. Taught by Professor Abará, classes are designed for all experience levels. Participants should wear comfortable clothing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Wall Street and Downtown Tour


Weaves together history, events, architecture, and people of birthplace of NY, financial capital of the world, and hottest new neighborhood in the city. Stops include U.S. Custom House, Trinity Church, Wall Street, NY Stock Exchange, other architectural and cultural sites. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “Waterways and Vistas”


Walk from the Dairy to Belvedere Castle, and learn about the intricate design of Central Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | “Window Box and Container Gardening 101”


Bilen Berhanu of Green Thumb NYC on “A Garden in the City? Of Course! Window Box and Container Gardening 101” Want to eat from your own garden? Learn how to do it yourself—it’s cheap and fun—no matter where you live.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Kicking off the NYC Healthcare Inform Every Neighbor Canvassing Project.


Be with people who do care! As we all should!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Boris Karloff Double Feature: Before I Hang (1940) and The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)


In Before I Hang (pictured), a physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminal's blood, but instead secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde. Directed by Nick Grinde. In The Boogie Man Will Get You, a young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. Directed by Lew Landers. Total running time: 128 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lesson | Kayaking and Community Rowing


Once again this summer local boating groups and boathouses from around the Harbor offer free kayaking and community rowing. There is no need to sign up in advance; boating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Bring clothes you don’t mind getting wet, and shoes or sandals suitable for walking on a rocky beach. No training or prior experience is needed. The only requirement is that you know how to swim. All equipment is provided free. Kayaking and canoeing will be inside a protected cove. Rowing will be in a group rowboat with an experienced guide. Children under 18 must have an adult guardian present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Sidney Gilliat's Green for Danger (1947)


With Trevor Howard. A mysterious murderer strikes on the operating table at a wartime emergency hospital. 91 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Performance | Theater for the New City's Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future, an Outdoors Performance


Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company is in its 33rd annual tour, this year doing Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future, a rip-roaring musical with book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by David Tice. Productions take place at various outside venues across the city. TNC's award-winning Street Theater always contains an elaborate assemblage of trap doors, giant puppets, smoke machines, masks, original choreography and a huge (9' x 12') running screen providing continuous movement behind the actors. The company of 27 actors, twelve crew members, two assistant directors and five live musicians shares the challenge of performing outside and holding a large, non-captive audience. The music varies in style from Bossa Nova to Gilbert & Sullivan. The musical is a morality play about how America, facing financial failure, must set a course through the uncertainty of what's to come.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Union Square: Crossroads of New York


The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more!
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2:00 pm
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Film | Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Nominated for 3 Oscars


With Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift. The only son of a wealthy widow dies while on vacation with his cousin. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane. Now the mother wants her lobotomized to cover up the truth. Based on the Tennessee Williams play. 114 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Bubble performs the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band


New York pop band Bubble exposes young ears to the music of the Beatles by recreating one of their seminal recordings, here reprising their sellout performance of the record never intended to be performed live, complete with a rock orchestra of strings, horns, sitars, tablas, harp, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | The Bachata Roja Legends, Dominican Music and Dance


Featuring singer/guitar great Puerto Plata and the Dominican Bachata Music Stars in honor of Dominican Restoration Day, this is an outdoor music and dance concert featuring traditional and contemporary Dominican bachata music, played by some of the genre’s legendary artists. Local Latin music group Zon Del Barrio also performs, a variety of items will be raffled off, and DJ David Medina will spin a variety of Latin musical styles. Chairs not allowed on the field; guests are encouraged to bring blankets to sit on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Tour | “Amble Through the Ramble”


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
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3:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Von Howard Project / Ballet Noir / Calvin Wiley, contemporary dance


Von Howard Project, under the Artistic Direction of Christian von Howard, delivers a repertory jam-packed with sinuous athletic movement that always challenges the elements of space and time. Since its inception in 2003, this Mid-Atlantic based contemporary dance company has sought out to build enthusiastic audiences for the living arts, while promoting a wider appreciation and understanding of contemporary dance. Ballet Noir features artists of diverse cultural backgrounds in groundbreaking, innovative, and inspiring works focusing on making ballet more accessible to the masses. Through the integration of various modes of artistic expression, including live musical accompaniment and 21st century technological advances, the company seeks to enhance the cultural experience of their audience. Calvin Wiley is the Artistic Director of the Calvin Wiley Dance Theatre, a company that blends distinctive forms of dance with twenty-six equally distinctive and beautifully energetic personalities, propelling dance to new destinations where community, awareness and self expression reign. Calvin also just recently launched his premier pre-choreographed dance class, CALVINOGRAPHYdance, which brings art, beauty, and brilliance in motion to dance studios around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Theater | Life On A Desert Island, a One-man Play


An interactive guide to surviving the wilderness and respecting the environment, based on Daniel Defoe’s 1719 classic story of Robison Crusoe, will be performed as a one-man outdoor spectacle play. The role of Robinson Crusoe will be played by either Samuel Kirk and Jason Vance, depending on the performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Festival


This new festival features performances by local modern dance companies and choreographers. Rain Date: Sunday, August 16
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Theater | William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream


Hip To Hip Theatre Company's presentation of the Bard's romantic comedy about the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke of Athens, Theseus, the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works and is widely performed across the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | One Life to Live star Robin Strasser reads from Likely Story: Red Carpet Riot by David Van Etten


The soap actress lends her talents to a reading from this novel about a star trying to make it to the Emmy Awards. "David Van Etten," a team of three writers named Chris Van Etten, David Ozanich and David Levithan, will also be there.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Dancing | Dance Tango in the Park


Beginner lessons at 7 pm. (Donations of beverages or snacks are greatly appreciated)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dancing | Bharatanatyam, the oldest form of classical Indian dance


Malini Srinivasan performs Bharatanatyam, the oldest form of classical dance in India. It is usually performed by a solo female dancer in temples and courts. Bharatanatyam dancing is characterized by expressive body movements and facial gestures. The dance symbolically illustrates a romantic love story. Srinivasan will be backed by Shobana Raghavan on Carnatic vocal, the traditional accompaniment to the Bharatanatyam form, consisting of song and spoken syllables. Following her performance, the audience, with her lead, will join the dancing, using a wide array of hand gestures and movement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Theater | William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream


This romantic comedy is one of the Bard's most popular works. The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta, and set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.
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6:30 pm
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Concert | African Diaspora Celebration


An evening African diaspora celebration with a live musical performance and film screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Moliere's The School for Husbands CANCELED!


Two brothers work to marry off their two sisters in this outdoor presentation of Moliere's classic comedy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | 2 Dance Companies: Ben Munisteri Dance Projects / Dendy Dancetheater


Ben Munisteri Dance Projects’ new Catalog, set to songs by Radiohead, realizes a sense of discovery and clarity through formalist patterns, design, and musicality. They also perform Turbine Mines and Tuesday, 4 a.m. Dendy Dancetheater's first New York concert dance piece in nine years takes its visual imagery from the groundbreaking lithographs of M.C. Escher, the master illusionist of time, objects, and space. They will perform Preliminary Study for Depth and the upper half of high and low.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | A new ballet by Wheeldon - the world’s most in-demand ballet choreographer


Ballet company Morphoses Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company performs of world premiere a ballet by the leading American choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Performing alongside the dancers will be popular singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright, who has written an original, fifteen minute score for this performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Theater | Euripedes' The Bacchae with a Score by Philip Glass


Director JoAnne Akalaitis presents this Greek tragedy as it was always meant to be seen – in the open air of the city. This interpretation, featuring a lush choral score by Philip Glass, re-imagines the classic story about what happens when a government attempts to outlaw desire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure


An outdoor presentation of one of the Bard's most popular "problem plays," which is also a comedy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Other | The Inwood Astronomy Project: Look at the Stars through a Telescope


THIS WILL OCCUR ONLY ON CLEAR NIGHTS, SO PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO CONFIRM. Come look through a telescope at the stars. The Inwood Astronomy Project is the largest public outreach program in New York City, hoping to get 5000 New Yorkers to come look through a telescope for the first time. They will be giving away posters, postcards, and other doodads. There is always a telescope to look through, and a knowledgeable astronomer to answer questions. Bring a flashlight for the climb to the hilltop. Call for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Jazz | 30 jazz flutists!


National Flute Association Jazz Flute Big Band. Winners of the National Flute Association Jazz Flute Big Band Competition perform. Ali Ryerson leads 30 jazz flutists with rhythm section. Special guest appearance by Lew Tabackin and Holly Hofmann.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 pm
Free
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