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

67 free events take place on Tuesday, December 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 December 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 December . 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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67 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Symposium | Sustainable Development – Scandinavian Style


Students, alumni, faculty and real estate professionals are invited to presentations on two extraordinary, major redevelopments in Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden. Both of these historic cities are generating new real estate markets, in part by creatively adapting historic and environmental features in within major cities. Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP Principal FX Fowle will present his firm’s award winning Plan for the City Regenerative, a former industrial waterfront area in Copenhagen. Stellan Fryxell Partner Tengbom Architects will present Hammarby Sjöstad – a new city district in Stockholm with emphasis on new technology for water and ecology.,/br> Moderator: Barry Hersh, Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate; Member the Faculty Steering Committee NYU Center for the Sustainable Built Environment
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Lecture | Metal Loadings to the Hudson River and New York Harbor: How Have They Changed?


With Dr. Robert Mason, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut. Part of a seminar series on scientific issues related to the environmental quality and resource management.
   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

Master Class | Master Class: Garrick Ohlsson, prize-winning classical pianist


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory. Garrick Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948 in New York) is an American classical pianist. Ohlsson was the first American to win first prize in the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition, in 1970. He also won first prize at the Busoni Competition in Italy and the Montreal Piano Competition in Canada. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Author Reading | Steve Harvey signs copies of his book Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man


Harvey shares information on: How to Get the Truth Out of Your Man Dating tips Decade-by-Decade How to Minimize Nagging and Maximize Harmony at Home And more, including his candid answers to questions you've always wanted to ask men.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Ukrainian Artists in Paris 1900-1939


An Illustrated Talk By Dr. Vita Susak of L’viv Art Gallery in Ukraine. This book is the first systematic and comprehensive examination of the role and substance played by Ukrainian-born émigrés to France in this time period. It provides the first detailed look at the contribution of artists from Ukraine to the phenomenon known as the “School of Paris.” Among the many artists from Ukraine living and creating art in Paris at that time were Alexander Archipenko, Mykhailo Boichuk, Sonia Delaunay, Sophia Lewitska, Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, and Hannah Orloff, Oleksa Hryshchenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Mykhailo Andriienko, Vasyl Khmeliuk. This English-language event is free and open to the public.
   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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Concert | A capella Holiday Music with the Big Apple Chorus


Festive music from the delightful Big Apple Chorus. This popular NYC ensemble will perform a cappella versions of your favorite holiday tunes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker


In a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the United States, explore the world of a “dew breaker”— a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Author Reading | Charles Rappleye discusses his book Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution


Rappleye is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor. He has written extensively on media, law enforcement and organized crime. Robert Morris is a biography of one of the least known but most important of the Founding Fathers, the man who financed the revolution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5

Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Piano and Violin Works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Schubert


Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in E minor, K. 301 George Perle Triptych for violin and piano Edward Elgar Salut d’Amour Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise Franz Schubert Rondo in B minor, D. 895 With: Juilliard musicians Francesca Anderegg, violin; and Brent Funderburk, piano.
   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
$6

Concert | Duo Tonna Daroca


A 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship recipient to Spain, Anna Tonna has been heard in such roles as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Illinois and the New Jersey State Opera, Willie in Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff and Dona Mercedes in Zandonai's La farsa amorosa, both with Teatro Grattacielo (North American premieres - Lincoln Center) and as Angelina in La Cenerentola with Taconic Opera.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Concert | Mannes Downtown Chamber Music Concert


Program: Françaix: Wind Quintet No.1 Faure: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120 Mannes College chamber music ensembles present a series of free lunch-time performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: Clay Beings and With the Grain: The Life and Art of Willard Stone. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Health Support Workshop


The NYC Department of Health will be available to offer health information and answer your health-related questions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks”


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Vincente Minnelli's Oscar-Nominated Musical Comedy Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): Love and Location


With Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, and Mary Astor. In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York. 113 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Author Reading | Liz Carlston reads from her book The Christmas Stone


Carlston reads from her inspiring book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Festival | Holiday Tree Lighting


It’s that time of the year for the Holiday Celebration 2010! An exciting evening filled with treats provided by Benvenuto and festive music by AudraRox and the New York Life Singers. At nightfall they'll light the holiday tree, a park tradition that started back in 1912!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Other | Cherry Vanilla & May Pang sign their books


Cherry Vanilla celebrates the release of her new memoir Lick Me with photographer May Pang.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Festival | Holiday Tree Lighting with a Performance by the Cast of Elf


The 87th annual tree lighting ceremony, featuring a live performance by the cast of the new Broadway musical.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Festival | Mayor Michael Bloomberg lights the World’s Largest Menorah


"The Menorah stands as a symbol of freedom and democracy, strength and inspiration, delivering a timely and poignant message to each person on an individual basis," said Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, Director Lubavitch Youth Organization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 5 Photography Exhibitions Open on One Night


Travels by Rick Sammons. Sammons has published 36 books, including his latest, HDR Photography Secrets. His book Flying Flowers won the Golden Light Award, and his book Hide and See Under the Sea won the Ben Franklin Award. Sammons is a member of the Explorers Club and is a Canon Explorer of Light. Requiem for a Soho Factory (1864-2005) by Lynn Passy. Passy's exhibition pays homage to the lost histories of our constantly changing world. The images, shot in 2006, evoke the lingering remnants of a 141-year-old candy factory in Soho-its idle machines and traces of its immigrant workers. Mask Portraits by Yaqui Yamdrok. Yamdrok acquired the masks (including two of Vincent Van Gogh) from Sergio and Massimo Boldrin, two internationally known mask makers in Venice. She designed the costumes and her friends volunteered to be models. All photographs were made outdoors and in New York City. Dictionary of Image...Cabinets of Wonder by Eugene Goldin. Goldin says, "Letters and words are always abstract. In Dictionary of Image, I'm trying to define abstract meanings using my images, sometimes broadening the usual definitions, sometimes not. Dictionary of Image is me, my life, my education, my feelings, my ironic look around, my collection of Japanese antiques, my Cabinets of Wonder with all of their curiosities." Through the Looking Glass by Myra Hafetz. Hafetz says, "These photographs were taken at The Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2009. They focus on one structure that was being demolished to make way for the Yard's future development. Sun poured through gaps in the roof."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | 9 Reasons Why Career Success Today Requires Entrepreneurial


Young Mi Park, Chief Operating Officer of Thevi Cosmetics, will show you how to be more entrepreneurial in your thinking, using examples that you can take home and apply to your work the next day. Learn how to think outside the box and challenge social norms in order to take charge of your career and succeed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Jeffrey Blitz's Documentary Spellbound (2002): The ABCs of Competition


Follows the lives of eight young Americans (Angela Arenivar, Nupur Lala, Ted Brigham, Emily Stagg, Ashley White, Neil Kadakia, April DeGideo, Harry Altman, Alex Cameron) who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. 97 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment. Classes are taught by experience volunteers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Painting: Kurt Knobelsdorf's Postcard from Florida


31-year-old Miami-based artist Knobelsdorf traverses our nation’s back roads in order to dislodge and conceptually recontextualize an eclectic range of fascinating and disturbing American arcana. The resulting 19 small, intensely worked, oil-on-panel paintings on view are composed as quasi-snapshots taken from the edge of reality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Forum | President’s Forum: An Evening with Bill Shore, Founder of Share Our Strength


School President Bob Kerrey engages in a one-on-one discussion with Bill Shore, founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit working to end childhood hunger in the United States. The forum features Shore’s most recent book, The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men, which profiles a group of scientists’ effort to develop a malaria vaccine despite tremendous odds. Their persistence and hope reveal the entrepreneurial strategies and qualities of character required to solve problems affecting people so voiceless, vulnerable, and economically marginalized that the solutions themselves have no market.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Student Exhibition: Emerge to be Seen


A multimedia exhibition by students exploring light, transparency, narrative and layers, to invite multiple interpretations. Curated by Kathryn DeRaffele and Maria Dubon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Art of Mapping


This lecture by Peter Hall explores the emergence of mapping as a research and visualization method used by writers and designers to reveal agendas and uncover potential. Hall, whose research focuses on mapping as a design process, has co-edited with Jan Abrams the book, Else/Where: Mapping-New Cartographies of Networks and Territories and organized several symposia and workshops on mapping. He is a design critic and senior lecturer in design at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches design theory, history and journalistic methods of research and writing. He writes regularly for Metropolis and his books include Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist and Sagmeister: Made You Look.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The “Social Lives” of Money and Global Finance


By Rodney Hall, University Lecturer in International Political Economy at Oxford University. Hall’s research interests include the study of the mechanisms of global financial governance in the developing and developed worlds, the construction and evolution of the international monetary system and monetary institutions, the social construction of economic theory and systems, the mechanisms of private and public global governance, and international relations theory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Festival | Tree Lighting and Caroling


New Yorkers traditionally celebrate the holidays with yuletide carols in downtown’s historic park. The annual 45-foot Christmas tree under the Arch that will be lit for the season between the hours of 4 pm and 1 am. Song leader Mary Hurlbut, accompanied by the Rob Susman Brass Quartet and children and grown-ups alike, will sing holiday songs. The multi-colored lights on the resplendent tree will be turned on to mark the beginning of festive winter evenings. Santa Claus himself has promised to appear and lead the children in the illumination countdown. Complimentary songbooks provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | War Crimes, Proportionality and the “Enlightened Public” In Israel


By Yoav Peled, a professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in political science from UCLA in 1982 and LLB (Bachelor of Laws) from Tel Aviv University in 2009. His work has dealt with citizenship and ethnic politics in Israel and with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He co-authored the book Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, which won the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for best book in Middle East studies in 2002.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | Ari Berman discusses his book Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics


A political correspondent for The Nation presents an illustrated lecture documenting the improbable tale of the grassroots resurgence that transformed the Democratic Party from a lonely minority to a sizable majority.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Artist and designer Job Smeets discusses The Book of Job


The first complete monograph about Studio Job with “Free as a Ball and Chain,” a lecture by artist Job Smeets, principal of the brilliant Dutch-Belgian design team. Smeets and his partner Nynke Tynagel are considered among the greatest artists at the intersection of design and art to have emerged in the last decade. Their award-winning furniture and art objects bring a monumental sensibility to contemporary industrial design, leavened with unapologetic wit and romance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford


With Leslie Brody. Introduced by Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her the “most influential writer.” Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew as a teenager. Their marriage severed ties with her privilege, a rupture exacerbated by the life she led for seventy-eight years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Presentation of the Latest Issue of The Hispanic Review


The Fall 2010 special issue of he Hispanic Review is on "The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism." Presented by the guest editor Sarah Nadal (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Nadal will be Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature in Spring 2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Science Fiction Book Discussion Group


This group discusses science fiction they have recently read. Bring your imagination and creativity - and make your presentation truly out of this world. The group may also discuss science fiction-related topics, including books, comic books, films, television programs, and conventions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Forum | Writing for Children Forum with Michael Garland


Garland is the author and illustrator of 26 picture books, including Super Snow Day and the New York Times bestseller Miss Smith and the Haunted Library. He has illustrated 50 books for other authors, including works by celebrities like James Patterson and Gloria Estefan. Garland’s landscape, still-life, and portrait oil paintings are found in private and corporate collections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Zeroes of the Maya


In the 4th century AD, the Maya began writing exponentially large numbers to link historical dates to periods deep in time. They used various glyphs and symbols to write these dates, symbols that include a dot for one and a bar for five and a stylized shell for zero within their positional base-twenty system. The first known Maya zero dates back to AD 357, carved on a stone stela at Uaxactun, Mexico. Why Maya scribes wrote dates so deep in time and how they use, conceive, and visualize their zero has been the focus of Anna Blume's archeological and ethno-historical research for the past eight years. Blume has been teaching and writing about art as a particular mediation between what can be seen and what remains unseeable. From this perspective, art, in its very making and existence, has within it a metaphysical component and a potentiality to exceed its own materiality towards expression both unleashed and unbound. Her field of research ranges from 6th-century sandstone rock cut temples in central Western India to 9th-century numerical Maya notations carved into limestone stelae. Blume received her PhD in the History of Art from Yale University in 1997. She has taught at various art colleges in New York including Cooper Union, Parson's School of Design, School of Visual Arts, and is currently Associate Professor of the History of Art at the State University of New York (FIT). Supported by the Ford Foundation, State University of New York, and the American Philosophical Society, her research on Maya concepts of zero is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra


Directed by Bobby Sanabria, a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator, producer, and writer specializing in Latin jazz. He has performed with Mario Bauza, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaría, Chico Freeman, Paquito D'Rivera, Candido, Ray Barretto, Chico O'Farrill, Francisco Aguabella, Henry Threadgill, Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Daniel Ponce, Michael Gibbs, Charles McPherson, Phil Wilson, and Marco Rizo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Barbie Zelizer talks about her book About to Die


What equips an image to deliver the news? How much does the public need to know to make sense of images in the news? What do these images contribute to historical memory? About To Die addresses these questions by using images of imminent death as a litmus test for considering news imagery and visual meaning more broadly. The evening will be hosted by local professor, author and activist Mark Crispin Miller. Zelizer is Raymond Williams Chair of Communication and the Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor of several collections and the author of Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye and Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Graphic Radicals: 30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated


A 30th anniversary retrospective of World War 3 Illustrated, an independently published political comic magazine founded in 1980 by artists Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. Comprised of original comics drawings and paintings, posters, commissioned murals, documentary film, animation and a complete set of issues.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Screening | Footage Screening: The Struggle in Kamagasaki


Kamagasaki is the largest slum and has the largest day labor pool in Japan. Come out for a screening of footage created by Nakazaki-cho Documentary Space (or “NDS”) and learn about the struggles and insurrections in Kamagasaki, including evictions, urban space transformations, and working conditions. NDS member Ayumi Goto studies early 20th century leftist culture in the US and Japan. Sabu Kohso writes about social movements and urban space and has translated books by David Graeber and Kojin Karatani.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Lecture | Insights on Fiction Writing with National Book Award Winner Colum McCann


A lecture by the author of Let the Great World Spin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Miles Neale.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Performance | Monsters in the Wood: Chapter-by-Chapter


Author and performer Brad Lawrence will perform all eighteen chapters (one a month) of his work Monsters In The Wood, finally answering the question – What’s so funny about murder, poverty, and drug addiction? Every month will also feature members of the BTK Band and special guest performers.
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Book Signing | Portia de Rossi signs copies of her book Unbearable Lightness


The actress shares her struggles with eating disorders and her sexuality in this riveting memoir.
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Author Reading | Richelle Mead reads from her book Vampire Academy #6: The Last Sacrifice


The astonishing final novel in the epic 'Vampire Academy' series.
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Screening | Robert Bilheimer's Documentary A Closer Walk (2003): Humankind vs. AIDS


The first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of Reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A Closer Walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. Discussion and a complimentary beer and wine reception will follow.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Salman Rushdie reads from his book Luka and the Fire of Life


With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun’s younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Concert | Spiritual Sounds: Recitation and Music


Spiritual Sounds features a local, diverse cultural community of rabbis, priests, ministers, monks, and imams offering recitations, Taize, jazz, gospel, chants, and traditional holiday songs and carols. With the politicization surrounding the proposed Islamic Community Center near Ground Zero, local faith leaders in the East Village continue their long-term commitment to community building and cooperation, and come together to celebrate again in recitation and song.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Bill Simmons signs copies of The Book of Basketball


The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat.
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Cast members celebrate Days of Our Lives: 45 Years


Celebrate the classic daytime drama with cast members Deidre Hall (Marlena), Sean Christian (Daniel) and Crystal Chappell (Carly) along with producer Greg Meng and author Eddie Campbell. Priority seating with purchase of the book.
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Film | Elio Petri's The 10th Victim (1965). With Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni


With Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni. A futuristic tale of a club in which human hunts are organized - members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up dead. 92 min. Film writer Evan Calder Williams will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | Baroque Chamber Players Fall 2010


Directed by Nancy Wilson, the Baroque Chamber Players present historically informed performances which evoke the spirit of the Baroque period through ornamentation, improvisation, and the idiomatic conventions of notation and rhythm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Corporate Personhood Play Festival


Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can now donate unlimited funds to politicians because they are entitled to the same rights as private citizens. Subjective Theatre Company’s Corporate Personhood Play Festival will present nine 10-minute plays inspired by this ruling. Tonight: Seward, Kansas Written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach. The soil is toxic, food is scarce, and corporate forces have taken control of all Kansas farms after a nuclear disaster. One farm in remote Seward may be the exception to the rulers. Light Sweet Crude Written by Melisa Tein. A snapshot of how great events affect small people, an illustration of the invisible connections we share with others, and a meditation on the responsibility of the corporation versus the responsibility of the individual. SP/Lochner Written by Julia Holleman. A comedic melodrama about how two scrappy young corporations in the 1880s persuade the Supreme Court to believe in their humanity using the only means at their disposal - passion, conviction, and, let's not forget, money. They Think Our Favorite Color Is Green Written by Patricia Ione Lloyd. Menthol cigarettes, buff black men and corporate America’s racism; or just another day in the U.S. of A. What have we learned from the world's leader of incarcerating its residents? How target advertising maximizes corporate profits, to laugh at tragedy, and how to get killer abs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Lecture | Nostalgia for the Future: Or Did Design Save the World?


MFA Design Department co-chair Steven Heller examines how in the past the future looked much brighter than it does today—and also more futuristic. Heller will discuss how design played an essential role in speculating and defining “what’s next” and how there was a sense of wonder and wonderment that he argues no longer exists today. This talk addresses how designers contributed to both dystopias and the fairs and expositions that sold optimism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The University Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich


Program: Mosolov: The Iron Foundry Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Trial Tango Class


In this 45-minute class, learn all the secrets of tango to be able to go out and have fun on the dance floor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Advanced Rhythm Ensemble


Directed by Rory Stuart.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Open Mike | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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