48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Meditation Session with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Kachen Lobzang Tsetan, abbot of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.
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more >> Bring your own mat or cushion. Chairs will be provided.
Tibetan Buddhism has a long tradition of meditation designed to enhance mental acuity and tranquility. Learn the basic techniques of meditation as practiced in Tibet by monastics and lay people. Explore how meditation on the Four Immeasurables—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity—combined with insight into the nature of phenomena can bring greater serenity of mind to people of all faiths.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> 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.
Observe the “Medicine Buddha” sand mandala as it is intricately formed and completed over six days. ...
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Khen Rinpoche Gashe Kachen Lobzang Tsetan will introduce the meditative process integral to making the mandala.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Monks perform prayers to clear away obstacles and attract auspicious influences. They invite all the ...
more >> Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to join them in making the area suitable for the creation of a mandala.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ...
more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the ...
more >> wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
Robert ...
more >> Schumann – Adagio and Allegro in A-flat, Op. 70
Benjamin Britten – Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 65
Featuring Juilliard musicians Amy Barston, cello, and Melody Fader, piano.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes ...
more >> 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.
12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation
The concert is presented by one of the world’s finest music conservatories, the Curtis Institute of ...
more >> Music. Since the school’s founding in 1924, its distinctive “learn by doing” approach has produced alumni of the highest stature including such legends as Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Award-winning Scottish video artist/composer and master illusionist Billy Cowie is on hand to present ...
more >> his fourscreen installation including Men in the Wall. 3D glasses allow the viewer to enter this world of four men, whose framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. Also featuring Cowie’s Ghosts in the Machine and Tango de Soledad.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ...
more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Find companies and executive contacts for your next job. Search by industry as well as location, size, ...
more >> and sales.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Observe the “Medicine Buddha” sand mandala as it is intricately formed and completed over six days. ...
more >>
Khen Rinpoche Gashe Kachen Lobzang Tsetan will introduce the meditative process integral to making the mandala.
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Uploading photos to Facebook? Storing documents in Google Docs? ...
more >> Streaming movies from Netflix? Understand what it means to store data in and access content from the Internet “cloud,” and explore its pros and cons.
4:20 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn the differences between mutual funds and ETFs to help you make the appropriate investment decisions.
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6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Silverthorne will discuss how her work explores the notion of vanitas and the artist’s studio as a ...
more >> kind of ruin. She is best known for using rubber as a medium for sculpture that is dark, earthy and humorous. Silverthorne has been a member of the faculty since 1993, and her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the ...
more >> age of twenty-eight and begins dictating what will surely be his final work.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Forna’s most recent book is The Memory of Love. Her novel Ancestor Stones won the Hurston/Wright Legacy ...
more >> for Debut Fiction, and her memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Moderated by Robert Polito.
Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel ...
more >> 2003. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
Urban storm water management has reached the public realm through growing concern regarding climate change ...
more >> and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s innovative PlaNYC 2030, a strategy to make New York City a greener, greater place. Dana Gumb, Jr., Director of the Staten Island Bluebelt at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, will address a host of issues in that conversation through the lens of the Bluebelt, one of the most ambitious storm water management efforts in the northeastern United States. Gumb will discuss the lessons learned from the Bluebelt, how they are currently being applied to other DEP projects in Queens and the Bronx, and what they mean for the future of New York City.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Before Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky became household names, men like Big Jack Zelig, Kid Twist Zweifach ...
more >> and Dopey Benny Fein ruled New York's Lower East Side. They robbed, stole, and killed - but they also protected the Jewish community with a dedication that made them popular heroes. In this illustrated lecture, Rose Keefe, author of The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster, talks about their humble beginnings, risky lives, and often tragic deaths.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A reading from a new translation of the Austrian author's 1930 novel as well as a discussion with the ...
more >> translator, Ross Benjamin.
Moderated by Paul Flemming, Associate Professor of German.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Leavitt's latest novel, Pictures of You, is the story of two women running away from their marriages ...
more >> who collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. Leavitt is the award-winning author of eight novels, a columnist for The Boston Globe, a book reviewer for People, and a writing instructor at UCLA online.
Local author Jennifer Gilmore penned Something Red and the New York Times Notable novel, Golden Country.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The veteran money correspondent urges adopting a new approach to money that can lead to a healthier financial ...
more >> lifestyle.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Watch as the hardest-working team in the tri-state area make their debut at the People's Improv Theater. ...
more >> Trust us, you've never seen improv like this before. The Belmonts are: keith bethea, elihu dietz, lisa kleinman, oscar montoya, matt nedostup and dede tabak.
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In an effort to bring the 2010 Winter Olympics to Korea, the country has to demonstrate that Koreans ...
more >> enjoy the sports of the Winter Olympics. One problem: no one knows squat about ski jumping. No problem, they assemble a team, train them on waterslides and sends them into competition.
145 min. New York premiere.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Screenings followed by a panel. Featuring:
30 CECIL STREET (Dan Canham/Will Hanke, UK, 2010, 7:20m)
Shot ...
more >> in the dilapidated premises of the Theatre Royal in the Limerick Athenaeum building, Ireland. With a history that stretches back voer 150 years, the Royal Theatre has been closed to the public for the last 13 years. Engaging with the atmosphere and past of this near-derelict building and using the soundtrack made up of four sounds and interviews with people associated with the Athenaeum, this short explores the state of a building once the hub of cultural activity.
DUNE DANCE (Zena Bibler, USA; 2010, 2:08m) Dune(s) dance on a blustery day in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Choreographed, danced, and filmed on the spot in May 2010.
OANNES (Ivo Serra, USA; 2007, 6m) Oannes represents The GOD of knowledge to the Babylonian (Ea) and to the Greeks, cultures, and he was the last mythological figure to be connected with the lost city: Atlantic. The artist sought to make this mythological being appear.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Gypsy moths are seen only in mid-summer. Males are grayish brown and can fly; females are larger, whitish ...
more >> with black marks and cannot fly.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join Day as she hosts The Circle, an introduction to healing, intuition and unconscious re-patterning ...
more >> that will change your life.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free tickets required
Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE first achieved recognition with the 1969 founding of COUM Transmissions, a confrontational ...
more >> performance collective heavily influenced by Dada, which was later transformed into the band Throbbing Gristle. The culmination of COUM was the 1976 “Prostitution” exhibition at the ICA in London, which featured a stripper, used Tampax sculptures, repurposed pornography and transvestite guards, and caused such a commotion that the British Parliament reconsidered government funding for public art and labeled P-Orridge and h/er collaborators “Wreckers of Civilization.”
P-Orridge went on to found the ground-breaking band, Psychic TV. In the 1990s, P-Orridge began a collaboration with the performance artist Lady Jaye Breyer, which focused on a single, central concern—deconstructing the fiction of self. Influenced by “cut-up” techniques and frustrated by what they felt to be imposed limits on personal and expressive identity and on the language of true love, P-Orridge and Lady Jaye applied the strategy of “cutting-up” to their own bodies, in an effort to merge their two identities, through plastic surgery, hormone therapy, cross-dressing and altered behavior, into a single, “pandrogynous” character, “BREYER P-ORRIDGE". Although Lady Jaye passed away in 2007, the project continues with Genesis embodying the entirety of BREYER P-ORRIDGE.
Genesis P-Orridge and BREYER P-ORRIDGE have exhibited internationally, including recent exhibitions at Deitch Projects, Mass MOCA, Centre Pompidou, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Barbican Museum, the Swiss Institute and White Columns, amongst others. Work was recently acquired for the permanent collection of the Tate Britain. S/he is the author of The Psychick Bible.
Lonely Christopher is the author of The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in our daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, which presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love. Lonely Christopher combines a striking emotional grammar with an unyielding imagination in the lovely-ugly architecture of his stories. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Cheever is best known as the daughter of John Cheever. She wrote the biography of Bill Wilson, My Name ...
more >> is Bill - Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous and her own memoir about her personal struggles with
the disease. Her latest book is a biography of the Little Women author. Cheever will discuss her approaches to writing. A question-and-answer session, plus book-signing and reception, will follow.
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Matt Mullican discusses the collisions of real and virtual space in his work with digital and interactive ...
more >> media in the past twenty years.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Beatrix Reinhardt's "The Politics of Space" has been the center of interest in her most recent body of ...
more >> work -- explorations of how demarcation can be achieved through decoration and organization, how individual s express themselves through how they organize, use and decorate their spaces, and how this can be seen as an expression of cultural values, ideals, beliefs, individual taste and sensibiltiies; and how architecture and decoration can reflect temporary liberation from 'everydayness.'
Reinhardt grew up in Jena, (formerly East) Germany, and completed her undergraduate studies in New German Literature at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. She came to the US to study at the New School for Social Research in New York and received an MA in Media Studies. Her study of photography also began at that time and continued at Illinois State University. She has lived and exhibited in many countries and, since fall 2005, is an assistant professor and program coordinator of photography at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New Juilliard Ensemble;
Joel Sachs, Founding Director and Conductor.
Program:
Pawel Mykietyn (b. ...
more >> 1971) Sonata for Cello (2006)
Hanna Kulenty (b. 1961) Brass No. 4 for tuba solo
Aleksander Lason (b. 1951) String Quartet No. 7 (2007)
Pawel Szymanski (b. 1954) Through the Looking Glass III for harpsichord (1994)
Marcel Chyrzynski (b. 1971) ForMS for cello (2001)
Witold Szalonek (1927-2001) Toccata and Choralefor organ (1988) in the 1990 version for piano
8:00 pm
free tickets required
Editor's Pick
It was to be a "Super Group". The finest veteran improvisers in New York City joining together to be ...
more >> super. But it was more than that. It was bigger. It was HUGE. HugeTOWN is not an improv show. It's an historical event. Keep your tickets so your grandkids can frame them. Featuring: Matt Higgins, Joe Schiappa, Nathan Phillips, Mandy Schmieder, Tara Copeland, Matt Hobby, Mary Grill, Matt Oberg.
A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by ...
more >> a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents ...
more >> in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
For the past six years, Comical Radio has been broadcasting from Manhattan, creating awesome comedy bits ...
more >> and interviewing some of the biggest guests in showbiz. Folks such as George Carlin, Paul Giamatti, Jeanane Garafalo and Sean Lennon have all stopped by and joked around with the crew. Now, for the first time ever, Danny Lobell, Chris Iacono, Myka Fox, and David Kasten are taking the show to the live stage. It will be wild! Who knows what will happen?! Huh?! Nobody. So come out to this show and have a spectacular time watching the greatest team in radio that have yet to be discovered by the world. Featuring: Kurt Braunohler, Pat Carlin and Moon Hooch.
Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mike. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, ...
more >> Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win "joke of the night" and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday.
11:00 pm
free, no reservation required