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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on August 7, 2010?

54 free events take place on Saturday, August 7 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 7 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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54 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, August 7, 2010

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Other | Summer Streets 2010


This summer, for the third year in a row, the city will temporarily close select streets to motor vehicles and open it up to people.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Kayaking on the Hudson


Enjoy breathtaking views of NYC while kayaking on the Hudson River. Completely free. Must know how to swim. A changing room and shower and hose to rinse off with are available. They have a limited number of locks available. Please bring your own lock.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Hike | Terrace Pond Hike


Located on the summit of Bearfort Mountain, Terrace Pond is surrounded by cliffs of purple conglomerate, scrub pines, and rhododendron thickets. Climb 350 feet on this approximately 5-6 mile hike. Some rock scrambling.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
$3 plus bus...

Workshop | “Relieve The Stress” Morning Exercise


A “Healthy Living” initiative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
Free

Other | Big City Fishing


Yes, you can fish in the Hudson River! They provide rods, reels, bait and instruction. So come on down and try your luck at fishing while enjoying the warm sun and cool breezes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Other | Book Swap Social


Want to make sure your gently used books get a good home? Then join us for our first ever book swap social. Bring TEN (please adhere to the limit) great titles you wish to exchange with other library patrons.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Historic Districts Walking Tour


The tour lasts approx 2.5 hours and has a total distance of approx 2.5 miles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Kayaking on the Hudson


Join 20-minute instructional paddles, then explore the Hudson River firsthand. Please wear a bathing suit or shorts and a t-shirt, and know how to swim. Weather permitting. Daily Weather Status: 1-646-613-0740.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Music Memorabilia Show


Over 10,000 items. From 1800s to 1980s. Records – LPs (33 1/3 rpm), 45rpm, 78rpm – jazz, rock and roll, R & B - soul, blues, gospel-spiritual, soundtracks, theatre music, disco, pop, vocals, country, folk, opera, classical, Latin, world music, TV-radio, comedy, spoken word, big bands, swing, instrumentals, Christmas and religious, sweet bands, sports, etc. Collectors and nostalgia lovers will be able to find Jazz Concert Posters of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and many more. Rock and roll rarities feature LPs and 45rpm records of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jim Morrison, The Beach Boys, The Who, The Rolling Stones, et al. Rhythm and blues classics include the music of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and other Motown favorites. Folk finds are there from Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, The Weavers, Ed McCurdy et al. Country legends include Webb Pierce, Bob Wills, Johnny Cash, Sons of the Pioneers and many more. Big bands arerepresented by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and Quincy Jones. There is opera and classical music plus reggae from Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, blues from B.B. King and Ray Charles etc. etc. Rare African American sheet music from the early 20th century, others from the 1800s, photographs of rock and rollers from the 1950s on and so much more!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | “Views from the Past”


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Festival | The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival


On the big stage, a multicultural program with professional musicians, dancers and singers will be entertaining all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Park Walk | Working Waterfront Walk


Join historian Paul Rush on a fascinating tour of the history and architecture in and around the park.
   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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Park Walk | Garden Tour


The tour highlights the history, design, and unique plantings of the 70-year-old Garden, led by staff. (Approximately 75 mins.) Features blooming perennial and annual borders (over 250 varieties) as well as ornamental trees and shrubs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Dance Performance | one of the leading figures in Canadian contemporary dance, choreographer Paul–André Fortier's Solo 30x30


A 30-minute dance performance presented in the same location, at the same time for 30 consecutive days. Created by choreographer and performer Paul-André Fortier, one of the leading figures in Canadian contemporary dance, this minimalist work is stripped of the stage’s artifice and grounded in the urban décor to form a bond between performer, audience and place.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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City Walk | Village Tour


Discover the Village with a tour that weaves together the highlights of history with delicious inside stories. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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City Walk | Village Tour


Discover the Village with a tour that weaves together the highlights of history with delicious inside stories. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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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12:00 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
$6

Lecture | Introduction to Astronomy: The Planets


A lively lecture and discussion presented by Jason Kendall, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador. Learn all about the planets in our Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, little Pluto, comets, asteroids, and the Kuiper Belt. Learn about the Earth as a planet, too. Kendal will talk about the planets found around other stars. What makes up a planet? Which ones have we visited? What is the debate about Pluto?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet: Dying for Love


EBE Ensemble will produce its first free, outdoor summer program featuring a repertory company. The productions are site-specific and feature active, modern interpretations using Shakespeare’s classic texts. Romeo & Juliet is directed by Dev Bondarin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films by Native American Directors


Native directors capture the spirit of the exhibition Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor. Films: Gesture Down, Good Looking, Mémère Métisse, Female Rain, Writing the Land.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | Walk NYC


A walking program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Parks hired trained walking instructors who will keep participants active, exercising and having fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Forwards/Backwards


A palindromic, semi-musical performance for vocalist, VHS playback, and synchronous audio. Over the course of 15 minutes, a vocalist relates various historical anecdotes about the possibility, and potential pitfalls of time travel, all the while attempting to keep time with a visual metronome played back on VHS. The presentation addresses time in many forms – musical rhythm and meter, the philosophy of time and being, calendars, time-zones, and Spanish imperialists. It also relies very heavily on the performers specific and expert knowledge of the material he is delivering.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:45 pm
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Discussion | Children's Literary Cafe


The Children’s Literary Café is a monthly gathering of adults who are fans of children’s literature. Professionals, librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers, booksellers, teachers, and anyone else interested in the field are welcome to attend our meetings. The Literary Café provides free Advanced Readers galleys, a rotating series of talks with professionals in the field, and great conversation. This program is for adults only.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | French Film: Anne Fontaine's Oscar-Nominated Coco Before Chanel (2009)


The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world. 110 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour. This high-energy tour will take you through the heart of the Lower Manhattan, entertaining you, your friends and family with stories, hidden secrets and relevant information about the Big Apple. The USA’s first capital city, a center of global finance and a tribute to over two centuries of immigration and the American experience - New York City's history is the history of America. And on every step of our tour, expert guides - part professors, part performers - will explain why.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Contemporary Interpretation


The Scottish tragedy is set in an occupied Islamic country, where Macbeth is a power-hungry U.S. Army officer, Duncan is a warlord and the Witches are local war widows. Presented by Pulse Ensemble Theatre.
   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!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | “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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2:00 pm
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Theater | Aaron Landsman's Patient Boy: Burning Down the Malls


A three-part theater piece about nostalgia, punk rock, the legacy of activism, and kids who burn down malls. It starts with three monologues by 40-year-old men in a bar, who reminisce to a silent boy about their glory years in unknown bands. Later the boy hooks up with a nice vegan squatter girl, and together they go around the country wreaking havoc on the empty shells of shopping centers. Eventually they take it too far. Years later, they reminisce to the audience about their glory crimes in unknown towns.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Film | Robert Mulligan's Oscar Winner Summer of '42 (1971): Innocence in Wartime


With Jennifer O'Neill and Gary Grimes. During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing a contradictorily innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Gospel Music: The Clark Sisters / Kierra “Kiki” Sheard


Four of the most celebrated voices in gospel history, The Clark Sisters (pictured) - Jacky, Twinkie, Dorinda and Karen - have spent three decades singing, preaching, evangelizing and teaching the Word at home and abroad. With twelve full-length records to date, they are credited as cornerstone performers in the mainstream, contemporary gospel style. Kierra "Kiki‟ Sheard is the latest generation of a legendary Gospel music family. The daughter of Karen Clark-Sheard of The Clark Sisters, she continues the family legacy of spiritual encouragement with a sound and perspective that is all her own. Inspired by her personal experiences, her latest release, Bold Right Life, features cutting-edge music that could be at home in churches and clubs alike, bringing her open declaration of the love for Gospel to the forefront.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films by Native American Directors


Native directors capture the spirit of the exhibition Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor. Films: Gesture Down, Good Looking, Mémère Métisse, Female Rain, Writing the Land.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Forwards/Backwards


A palindromic, semi-musical performance for vocalist, VHS playback, and synchronous audio. Over the course of 15 minutes, a vocalist relates various historical anecdotes about the possibility, and potential pitfalls of time travel, all the while attempting to keep time with a visual metronome played back on VHS. The presentation addresses time in many forms – musical rhythm and meter, the philosophy of time and being, calendars, time-zones, and Spanish imperialists. It also relies very heavily on the performers specific and expert knowledge of the material he is delivering.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: Assassination and Aftermath


EBE Ensemble will produce its first free, outdoor summer program featuring a repertory company. The productions are site-specific and feature active, modern interpretations using Shakespeare’s classic texts. Romeo & Juliet is directed by Kristine Ayers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Alumni Exhibition: Abstract Intentions


An exhibition of work by former participants in the Summer Residency Programs in the Division of Continuing Education. Curated by David Gibson, faculty member, and Keren Moscovitch, coordinator of the Summer Residency Programs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Asphalt Orchestra


For five nights, the Asphalt Orchestra moves throughout the Lincoln Center campus performing World premiere compositions by Yoko Ono and David Byrne with Annie Clark of St. Vincent as well as new original arrangements, to movement choreographed by Susan Marshall and Mark DeChiazza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet: Dying for Love


The Hudson Warehouse presents this tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young “star-cross’d lovers” whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. An outdoor presentation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Theatre 4the People's A Grimm Reality


Nothing grim about this modern adaptation of our favorite Brothers Grimm fairy tales - written by four award-winning playwrights and brought to life by the cutting-edge environmental theatre troupe THEATRE 4the PEOPLE.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dancing | West African Family Dance


Mane Kadang performs stirring music from Senegal, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. Dances are led by KotchegnaDance Company. No partners or experience necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Dance Lesson | West African Family Dance


MANÉ KADANG performs stirring music from Senegal, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. Dances are led by KOTCHEGNA DANCE COMPANY. No partners or experience necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Contributors read from My Baby Rides the Short Bus


With Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Jennifer Byde Myers, Sharis Ingram Come out and hear contributors read from the groundbreaking anthology written by counter-cultural parents of kids with special needs. This collection provides a dose of laughter and authentic insights into the experience of folks often ridiculed into invisibility.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Punk: Balkan Beat Box / Mucca Pazza


The carnivalesque gypsy-punk meets breakbeats of Balkan Beat Box sharing a bill with circus-punk marching band Mucca Pazza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Rock: Gilad Bloom Band


Calling all blankets, picnic baskets, and candles! Tonight’s performance is by the Gilad Bloom Rock Band, formed by Gilad Bloom about ten years ago. Bloom is an ex-pro tennis player who played on the ATP Tour for 13 years and represented his native country in Davis and in 2 Olympic games (Seoul 88 and Barcelona 92). He currently has his own Tennis Academy in NYC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing: A Comedy of Two Couples


Benedick and Beatrice are engaged in a "merry war"; they both talk a mile a minute and proclaim their scorn for love, marriage, and each other. In contrast, Claudio and Hero are sweet young people who are rendered practically speechless by their love for one another. Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare in the Parking Lot: Julius Caesar


The Bard's play in an unusual outdoor setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Sharon Bridgforth's blood pudding: Celebrating Blacks in New Orleans


Directed by Baraka de Soleil, blood pudding is a multidisciplinary theatre piece that celebrates the history of black people in New Orleans. Through blood memories of a "gurl" born in Congo Square/blood pudding explores a landscape of magic. In this polyrhythmic telling, the blues is sacred. Narrators are holy. Indigenous people are honored. The drum shapes reality. This is Jazz. Ritual. Theatre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | After Dark Comedy Show


The first half is a swinging variety show featuring the best mix of club and alternative stand-ups, and sketch characters. Then a storytelling jam session featuring all of the nights performers telling real life funny tales of triumphs and failure based on audience suggestions. Hosted by Harry Terjanian with comedians Eric DaSilva, Gabriel Pacheco, Hilary Schwartz, Sean Hart, Eric Vetter, and Dave Raskinsky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Performance | Floating Kabarette


Hosted by Olga & Bjorn. Featuring: Jenny Rocha (dance), Lady Rizo (music), Lisa Natoli (aerial), Minnie Tonka (burlesque) and Sean Blue (circus).
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 pm
Free
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