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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 24, 2010?

48 free events take place on Wednesday, February 24 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 February 24 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 February . 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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48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 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
Free

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 | “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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11:00 am
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Concert | Orfeo Duo perform works by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and more


Program: Three Nocturnes by Jacob Goodman A Fondo by Juan Maria Solare Isn’t It a Lovely Day to be Caught in the Rain by Irving Berlin & Night and Day by Cole Porter, arr. Orfeo Duo A short, intimate concert of chamber music by Morningside Heights and West Harlem residents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:15 pm
Free

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

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

Jazz | Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Vocal Workshop


Ryan Keberle and Priscilla Owens, directors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz: Broadway Meets Swing Street


An ensemble performance with: Judy Kurtz, vocals; Ed Polcer, cornet; Don Stein, piano; Mike Weatherly, bass; and Kevin Dorn, drums.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$7 requested donation

Other | Oral Cancer Screenings


Screenings are on a first-come first-served basis. No appointment is needed. Testing is quick and painless.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Basic Internet


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the Internet and how to perform basic searches.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | How to Get Started in Web Design


If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it. They’ll talk about what HTML is and how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to layout your webpages and style your text. They’ll show how to use Adobe Fireworks to create buttons and other graphics for your webpages. Don’t know the difference between a GIF and JPEG image? Don’t worry, they’ll explain that too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Javier Tellez talks about his work


Tellez creates videos installations and films that combine documentary with fictionalized narratives. Collaborating with institutionalized patients living with mental illness to rewrite classic stories or invent their own, he creates what he calls a cinematic “passport to allow those outside to be inside,” thus renegotiating socio-cultural barriers. This approach to using art as a voice for the marginalized positions itself within the tradition of art therapy, though Téllez attempts to “cure” viewers of false assumptions, rather than the patients of their disorders. Tellez was born in Venezuela and lives in New York. He attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work has been selected for the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, as well as exhibitions at KW?Berlin, Manifesta, DeAppel (Amsterdam). He was recently awarded a DAAD Fellowship. Location:
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Robert McDonald, Instrumental Accompanying


Students coached by this distinguished artist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Forum | Afro-Latin in the Americas: History and Culture of an Invisible Majority


This event will focus on the experience of the African diaspora in the Americas, particularly the Caribbean and Brazil. It will feature a presentation on the history and culture of people of African descent in the Americas--paying particular attention to issues of identity. The presentation will be followed by an interactive workshop by the Afro-Latin Forum aimed at helping teachers incorporate these themes into their curriculum. The event will culminate with a cultural performance and reception featuring Afro-Caribbean music and food. Guest Speakers: Professor Juan Flores, New York University; Miriam Jiménez Román, Executive Director of the Afro-Latin Forum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Why Aren't We on the Same Wavelength? Understanding Interactions Between White and Ethnic Minority Students


A lecture by Tessa West, Assistant Professor of Psychology. As the U.S. becomes increasingly diverse, interpersonal interactions between whites and minorities have become more commonplace. Unfortunately, however, such interactions can be awkward and anxiety provoking, cognitively taxing, and physiologically threatening. This lecture will discuss two studies that explore the dynamics of interracial interactions, taking into account the perspectives of whites and minorities. The first study demonstrates the fragility of interracial interactions between newly acquainted white and minority college students, and the second study focuses on what factors predict friendship formation among mixed-race new college roommates.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
Free

Screening | Byron Hurt's Documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes: Hate in Rap Culture


An in-depth look at representations of manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This groundbreaking documentary is a “loving critique” of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form’s representations of masculinity. Leading rap and hip-hop artists including Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, Russell Simmons are interviewed—and pressed—to answer some difficult questions about the violent and sexually explicit content of many hip-hop songs and videos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | How to Get Started in Web Design


If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it. They’ll talk about what HTML is and how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to layout your webpages and style your text. They’ll show how to use Adobe Fireworks to create buttons and other graphics for your webpages. Don’t know the difference between a GIF and JPEG image? Don’t worry, they’ll explain that too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Julian Yeo performs from his CD Deep Purple Dreams


The very creative Yeo returns with a third CD as unique as his first two, in which he explores the moods and music heard in a 1930's Shanghai nightclub whose owners and patrons live by night.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Kortney Ryan Ziegler's Documentary Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen (2008)


This alternative feature-length documentary explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity. There will be a post screening discussion with two self-identified black transmen, Tiq Milan and Marquise Vilson. They will discuss how their lived experiences relate to the realities portrayed in the film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Robin D. Stone discusses the book My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times by Gerald Boyd


Stone will discuss the book by her late husband Boyd. A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to remarkable success at The New York Times, the book provides an insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper, reconstructing the most controversial period in the paper’s history and recording how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the past two decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Great American University


A lecture by Jonathan R. Cole, author of The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence and Threatened Future. A reception and book signing will immediately follow the presentation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | What Price Is Right? Structuring Fees and Terms That Work for You


A workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Christopher Finan discusses his book From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America


The history of free speech in America is an accurate measure of the evolution of American democracy. During the 20th century there were recurring attempts at limiting the right of political protest and censoring artistic expression. These were successfully countered by the activism of citizens groups and public officials committed to the broadest expression of free speech in America. Discover how that spirit of vigilance has been expressed from the Palmer Raids of 1919 to the Patriot Act of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Figures of Insolvency: Literature and Financial Crisis in Latin America, 1890-1929


A lecture by Ericka Beckman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A casual reception will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Intermediate Internet E-Mail


Hands on using wireless laptops. Procedures for replying to an e-mail, forwarding an e-mail and sending attachments. Prerequisite: knowledge of how to send / receive e-mail.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Rethinking America’s Drug Policy


John Donohue III, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will take up a vexing yet pragmatic question: “Are the gains reaped by decriminalizing illicit drug laws worth the cost of potentially increasing drug addiction at-large?”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Tendencies: Poetics and Practice


Poets Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn and Charles Bernstein explore the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | What in the World: Stories of Archaeology and Anthropology Curators


On occasion of the exhibition The Storyteller, a talk by Pablo Helguera. Providing an unauthorized biography of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Helguera digs out little-known stories around the remarkable curators and other colorful figures of its past, while at the same time reflecting on the social role of individuals in museums and the way in which they influence the reading of objects and the larger narratives of collections. Helguera is a New York-based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance. His work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances, and written fiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | 3 Writers: Mary Gaitskill / Hari Kunzru / Ed Park


Mary Gaitskill (pictured) is the author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Hari Kunzru is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions. His work has been translated into twenty languages. Ed Park's first novel is Personal Days, about a group of coworkers who get fired one by one.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Czech Film: Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue (2007)


A translator jettisons her old life to pursue music-making. 93 min. In Czech with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | David Sax discusses his book Save the Deli: In Search of the Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen


Come for a reading and signing with the author of this witty new book in which he rhapsodizes about the tastes, aromas, and lore of the delicatessen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Haitian Aftershocks


The situation in Haiti is horrible. Come out for a first-hand account of the turmoil in Port-au-Prince by writer Nicholas Powers with an elaboration on the history of American involvement in the poorest country in the hemisphere. -
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Concert | Little Night Music: A Composer's Salon with Benet Casablancas


A celebration the New York debut at Miller Theatre of contemporary Catalan composer Benet Casablancas. With CUNY musicologist Antoni Pizà; flutist and artistic director of Perspectives Ensemble Sato Moughalian; and Melissa Smey, director of Miller Theatre. The salon will feature a performance of Casablancas's "Petita Música Nocturna" by the Perspectives Ensemble, and a conversation among all the participants in which Casablancas's musical oeuvre will be discussed in the context of the European and North American modernist traditions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Marilyn Johnson reads from her book This Book Is Overdue!


Johnson, staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire and Redbook, takes readers on a delightful journey to the underbelly of life as a librarian today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Momenta Quartet: Award-Winning New Music Ensemble


The Momenta Quartet has been described by Time Out New York as a "striking new-music quartet." Along with over 40 world premieres by both established and up-and-coming composers, the ensemble's repertoire includes standards by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and others; twentieth-century masterworks; and consort music of the Renaissance. In February 2009, Momenta was one of only seven recipients of the prestigious Koussevitzky Music Fund grant to commission a new work by the Malaysian composer Kee Yong Chong. The program includes Arthur Kampela's String Quartet along with works written especially for Momenta by Bolivian composers Agustin Fernandez and Cergio Prudencio and Venezuelan composer Manena Contreras. The quartet is: Emilie-Ann Gendron and Asmira Woodward-Page, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Pop Music: Misty Roses


An exploration of the black shadows that fall across pop music's middle of the road. A transatlantic combo based in London and New York City, their sound is darkly glamorous and melodramatic, turbulent and opulent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Ted Conover discusses The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today


The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack will discuss his new book with William Finnegan, a staff writer for The New Yorker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Café Jazz: Student Combos


Student jazz combos in an intimate setting. Refreshments provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Screening | Classic French Cinema: Jacques Tati's Play Time (1967)


A few American tourists embark on a one-day sightseeing tour of the French capital. Meanwhile, Monsieur Hulot has an appointment with an important official, but ends up getting lost in the maze of modern offices. 155 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Eisenberg-Fried Woodwind Concerto Competition


Linda Chesis, Coordinator.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Howard Pflanzer's Poetry Class with Serial Killer: Meter and Murder


What happens when the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy is a student in a poetry class? A staged reading directed by Aron Bederson with Jascha Bilan, Beth Griffith, Richard Keyser, Amy Newhall, Charles J. Roby, and Peter Tedeschi. Also, MD will read his poetry. His work has appeared in Ark, The Garden Thrives and Tribes. He has received poetry fellowships to work in both Eastern Europe and South Africa. He has recorded some of his poetry on European indie labels CC and Red Bank records.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Playwright Christopher Durang and others discuss The Play That Changed My Life


Joining a discussion of what writers greatly influenced their work will be playwrights Durang, David Ives, Doug Wright and editor Ben Hodges. Guest moderator will be Howard Sherman, executive director of the American Theatre Wing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Classic French Film: Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped (1956)


French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer? 99 min. In French with English subtitles. Following is a discussion with Joshua Dubler, Society of Fellows.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Team Rain / Song Hee Lee / Aurora Taber / Maryanne Chaney


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by an artist-in-residence or an occasional guest, where they will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Performance | Haiku Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy in the intimate setting of an old speakeasy, Haiku features some of NYC's top comedians working out material. You never know who will drop by the room and do a set.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Student Composers’ Concert


This concert will feature performances of new works by College Division composition students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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