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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 3, 2011?

45 free events take place on Thursday, February 3 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 3 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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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 3, 2011

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Other | Ice Skating in the Heart of the City


Bring your own skates and skate for free in the heart of the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 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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Screening | Animated Short Films on Native Americans


Featuring: The Visit, Čurte-Nillas: The (Short) Movie, In This Manner, I Am, Waseteg, How Birds Got Their Song, Little Thunder, Weichafes - 500 Años de Historia: Mito del Diluvio, Mapuche/Weichafes - 500 Years of History: The Mapuche Myth of the Flood, and Wapos Bay: Guardians. Starts at 10:30am, 11:45am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm, and 5:30pm.
   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

Concert | Organ Performance Class


Students of Paul Jacobs, Chair of Organ Dept.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Tavern and Its Green Tour


Discover the sheepfold that became a world famous restaurant, a parade ground that became the Sheep Meadow, the Children's District, The Mall including its statues.
   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

Concert | European Contemporary Choral Music


Choir with chamber ensemble; Grete Pederson, guest conductor. Includes compositions by Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | The Inseparable Worlds of Alfred Stieglitz and Contemporary Indian Photographers and the Aero-Dynamic They Each Set Loose


Outlandish? Watch innovation take off in an expansive, swelling culture. That's when Stieglltz made his experimental Equivalents, just as today's photographers in India are pushing the boundaries of photography as India's Information Technology wags the tail of world IT.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Other | Ice Skating in the Sky


Bring your owns skates and skate for free on this fifth-floor terrace-turned-ice rink.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Japanese Cinema: Mitsuo Yanagimachi's Himatsuri (1985)


This example of the Japanese New Wave, based on an actual event, is a mysterious parable of change. In a coastal village in southwest Japan, a lumberjack has a mystical relationship with the goddess of the mountains. When a developer comes to the fishing community to propose a tourist park, only Tatsuo opposes him. Tatsuo's decisive moment comes during the annual Fire Festival, a 2,000-year-old celebration when the purifying fire reveals a drastic solution. 120 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Elaine Shor,: Attraction & Reaction.


The exhibit features seven large-scale oil paintings that observe the figure in order to unravel the complicated nature of relationships. Painting directly from the model, Shor's work evokes both the emotional and physical strain these relationships carry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

City Walk | DUMBO Gallery Art Walk


A festive occasion each month for art lovers. A chance to visit many quality galleries at night in one artsy Brooklyn neighborhood - galleries showing works from artists of many disciplines, especially photography, while hosting receptions, producing live music performances and curator/artist talks among other highlights. Let's not forget the incredible views you can enjoy as you walk from one gallery to the next & the local drink specials afterward. Most of the art is for sale. Printed maps and 1st Thursday cards are available on-site. Participating galleries may vary each month.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free

Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: On & Off the Res’ w/ Charlie Hill. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Concert | A 90th Birthday Celebration for Composer Halim El-Dabh


Live performance of some of the great Egyptian composer's chamber works and screenings of excerpts from his ballets. Performers include soprano Christine Moore, violinist Luis Casal, and pianists Ruzan Asatryan and Katie Reimer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Sinister Play


Seven artists explore the duality of imagery which is at once childlike, cute, and cuddly, yet belies disturbing undercurrents of menace, mischief, and violence. Featuring work by Meredith Allen, Nancy Baker, Monika Malewska, Kendrick Mar, Douglas Newton, Jon Pellicoro, and Tim Ripley, Sinister Play includes painting, photography, works on paper, and sculpture. Also opening: Carol Jacobsen's Mistrial.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Reading | Marathon of Student Dramatic Writing


First-year graduate students present a marathon of their new works. Show starts every half-hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | New Works by Artists Hope Gangloff and Robyn O'Neil


Hope Gangloff’s is a life examined and perceptively recorded with unfailing attention to detail. Paintings of friends and colleagues capture a personal American Vision, a modern day Dick and Nicole Diver who by some turn of events have found themselves inhabiting a Brooklyn cold-water flat. Psychological portraits, each picture hints at a back story and inner life as suggested by the artist’s frenzied line and distinctive palette. Gangloff paints a picture of being in a modern world, an eloquent hard won beauty. Robyn O’Neil's show of graphite drawings will serve to announce our representation of O’Neil and her upcoming October show in the main gallery. Well known for her epic narrative drawings, this presentation will reverse course with jewel-like renderings of extraordinary power and poignancy. O’Neil was recently honored with a solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center. She first came to our attention in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and was seen more recently in New York in the exhibition Dargerism at the American Folk Museum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting: James Rieck's Enter the Dragon


It seems today that no respectable wardrobe is complete without at least one good ironic T-shirt. This fashionable form of expression spans every possible posture, whether it is the iconic portrait of Che Guevara worn by a stockbroker, or the "Just Say No to Drugs" slogan infamously touted across Lindsey Lohan's chest, the ironic T-shirt has become an omnipresent part of life. Inspired by this ubiquitous form of communication and self-expression, artist James Rieck uses the T-shirt as a blank slate upon which he communicates the narrative in his work. Exclusively appropriating action film stills from Bruce Lee movies, including the use of Lee's most famous film as the title of his show, Rieck digitally composes Lee's classic martial art scenes onto his subjects T-shirts. Each larger than life painting hosts an individual or group of tantalizing young women, whose body language conveys the choreographed kung-fu scene adorning their snug fitting shirts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Stephen Cimini's Chromatogenous Conversations


Continuing to draw from the architectural origins of his past work and his obsession with color, these new paintings also focus on the shape and scale of the canvases. They range from seven inch squares, to the tall, slender 7 foot high ask the giraffe piece (featured at right) to a luscious, green nine-foot-long triptych.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Politics of States of Exception in Israel Palestine


The Department of Sociology invites Professor Amal Jamal, Chair of Political Science at Tel Aviv University for a special talk entitled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | A Love/Hate Relationship: Artists Explore Their Fixation with the Art World as Subject


A panel discussion featuring curator and artist Eric Doeringer in conversation with exhibiting artists Jennifer Dalton, Loren Munk, and William Powhida. The panelists will discuss their reasons for making art about the art world and the ways that their subject matter and art careers have influenced one other.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s


In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book The Feminine Mystique. Stephanie Coontz examines its influence on a generation of women who came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice. Coontz is the author of the award-winning Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Art under Islam: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership


Jews have a long history in North Africa, having first arrived in the 5th century BCE. The Arab expansion of the 6-8th centuries CE. created a new political reality with Jews and Christian living as dhimmi, protected minorities under Muslim rule. This illustrated lecture by Dr. Vivian B. Mann, Director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art at The Jewish Theological Seminary, will explore the relations between Jewish and Muslim artists from the tenth century until the twentieth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Ben Westhoff reads from his book New York City's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Big Apple


Westhoff will read from his new book which takes the reader on a tour of the five boroughs' dingiest, awesomest watering holes, from downtown relics to surreal joints in Queens and Staten Island where time seems to stop. The work contains wild, firsthand, short essays about English-optional ethnic dives, bikini bars, spots on the National Register of Historic Places, and lawless hellholes where cops and firefighters duke it out. The reading will be followed by a visit to the East Village dive, Grassroots Tavern.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Cartoon Polymaths


While the word cartoon is usually associated with humorous line drawing, the form has a deep influence across many types of art and design, from animation and children's books to puppetry and product design. What is it about the cartoon that permits—or enables—such an evolution? Explore this phenomenon with this exhibition of multimedia work by high-profile artists whose work proceeds from a cartoon sensibility.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Alloy Orchestra presents Masters of Slapstick


Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects and electronic synthesizers, Alloy thrashes and grinds soulful music from unlikely sources. Tonight: Speedy (1928) starring Harold Lloyd.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France


Professor Tom Conley on deciphering maps as poetry, and poems as maps. Conley’s new book, An Errant Eye, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a “new poetics of space” ranging throughout French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, Tom Conley performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts, and poems to plot a topographical shift in the late Renaissance in which space, subjectivity, and politics fall into crisis. He charts the paradox of a period whose demarcation of national space through cartography is rendered unstable by an ambient world of printed writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier


A novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called Manderley that is as much a presence as the humans who inhabit it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Gramercy Brass Orchestra of New York performs works by Tchiakovsky and others


Musicians of the Gramercy Brass Orchestra of New York and international organ recitalist Stephen Tharp perform music for Organ and Brass including works of George Baker and Arthur Willis as well as Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Installation: Arturo Herrera's Les Noces


Herrera is considered a leading contributor to the field of modernist abstraction. Les Noces, the artist’s first work to incorporate music and moving images, is a two-channel digital projection based on the 1923 ballet performed by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes and scored by Igor Stravinsky. Herrera has digitally reworked fragments of his own artwork to create a dance of abstract black and white images set to Stravinsky’s music. In addition to the video installation, the exhibition will feature works on paper, sculptures, collages, and Herrera’s photographic series, which was used as a point of departure for the creation of Les Noces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Joe Fig discusses his book Inside the Painter’s Studio


Artist and alumnus Fig explores the working life of professional artists in diorama-like miniature reproductions of their studios, including those of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Fig’s book includes his interviews with other artists about their creative processes, alongside images of his sculptures documenting their studio spaces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Michael Fazio discusses and signs Concierge Confidential


With some truly unforgettable stories, Fazio takes readers on a tour of the service industry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts reads from her book Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America


Originally from Houston, Rhodes-Pitts graduated from Harvard and was a Fulbright Scholar in the UK. She now lives in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe and The Nation. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Student Exhibition: Clear Chambers


A multimedia exhibition of works by current students in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department. The works in this exhibition address the idea of a chamber not only as an enclosed space but also as the origin of the word “camera.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Winter dance showcase; program E


Part of winter dance showcase. Featuring the works of 64 contemporary dancemakers, all performances in two-week long extravaganza. (Photo by Young Soon Kim) Tomomi Imai Malcolm Low/Formal Structure Inc. Hyonok Kim Dance Art Brenda R. Neville/NEVILLE Dance Theatre KC Chun-Manning/FRESH BLOOD Productions Alaine Handa/A.H. Dance Company Mare Hieronimus Tina Croll + Company
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Writers Abby Sher and Darin Strauss read from their work


The grays of truth get probed in storytelling. Abby Sher reads from Amen Amen Amen: Memoir of a Girl who Couldn't Stop Praying, her precise and humorous memoir about an obsessive-compulsive youth and which serves as an elegy to loss and as a devotional to discovery. Darin Strauss reads from his book Half a Life, a slow-release mediation and confessional about his life since accidentally killing a classmate nearly 20 years ago.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Master Class: Eteri Andieparidze, Piano


World-renowned performers and pedagogues coach the pianists of tomorrow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Sa Myung Han, tenor


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Soul/Funk: Michael Leonhart and the Avramina 7


Trumpet player, producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and singer-songwriter Michael Leonhart blends the styles of Bollywood funk scores, Afrobeat, 1960s psychedelic rock, and the fantastical storytelling of artists like the Beatles, Donovan and the Byrds. Leonhart takes the stage with the Avramina 7, which comprises musicians who have built the New York and Brooklyn funk and soul scene. The 16-piece (seriously—16-piece) funk collective features members of the Dap-Kings, Plastic Ono Band, the Phenomenal Handclap Band, Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, El Michels Affair, and Antibalas, among others—in short, pretty much the go-to set of soul/funk musicians in New York City today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Winter dance showcase; program F


Part of winter dance showcase. Featuring the works of 64 contemporary dancemakers, all performances in two-week long extravaganza. (Photo by Young Soon Kim) Nicole Smith/project:Smith Sue Bernhard Danceworks Rainwater Dances Yin Yue Dance BALAM Dance Theatre Dorrell Martin Mari Meade Dance Collective
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | God Tastes Like Chicken Comedy Show


The brainchild of erotic balloon artist John Murdock, the cast of God Tastes Like Chicken serves up society's sacred cows medium rare, with improv, sketch comedy, stand-up, chickens, and heresy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | New Team Lunacy Comedy Show


All you need to do is show up. Don't have an improv group? We'll put you in one! Have a team then bring them down! Five teams get to play for ten minutes each, and everyone has fun. Work on your skills and meet some great new people. New Team Lunacy, hosted by Kelly Kreye and Chris O'Neil!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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