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48 free events take place on Wednesday, January 25 in New York City.
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48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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Other | 2012 Wellness Days


Start the new year off right. Visit for demonstrations, samples and tips from participating retailers on how to stay healthy in the new year.
   
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Teach Yourself: Computer Self-Study


Hands on using wireless laptops. Discover free computer tutorials on the web. Search NYPL's Catalog for books, DVDs and eBooks to help you learn computer programs and concepts on your own. Find resources on Word, Excel, Office 2007, the Internet, typing and other topics.
   
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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.
   
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11:00 am
$6

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" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   
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11:15 am
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Film | French Cinema: Hsiao-hsien Hou's Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)


A little boy and his babysitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon. 115 min. In French with English subtitles.
   
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11:15 am
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Lecture | The End of Certainty or Quo Vadis Democracy? The Case of Europe and Hungary


A talk by Ferenc Miszlivetz, a sociologist, academic advisor and doctor of international studies. He is currently the leader of the Value & Culture Workshop in the Political Science Institute at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is professor at the University of Western Hungary where he is also a faculty member and director of the Institute for Social and European Studies. He will be introduced by Professor István Deák.
   
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the 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.
   
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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.
   
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1:00 pm
$6

Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Screening | Native American Films


Featuring films by and about Native Americans. At 1pm and 3pm.
   
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1:00 pm
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Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | WorkSearch Orientation


Are you a 40+ job seeker? WorkSearch is an online system which provides links to job openings, skills assessment tools, and training programs at no cost to individuals. After taking the orientation, WorkSearch is accessible to registrants through the Internet, or through Library computers. Attendees will be shown how to download the information to a USB flash drive. (Bring your own USB drive.)
   
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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Lyra Consort


The Lyra Consort will perform Christopher Simpson’s The Seasons-Summer and Autumn. In its third season, the Lyra Consort (Vita Wallace, violin; Beverly Au and Lisa Terry, viols; with Deborah Fox, theorbo) will complete the cycle of Christopher Simpson's The Seasons, performing "Summer" and "Autumn" - brilliant and sublime division suites for violin, viols, and continuo, and chamber works featuring lyra viol. The concert will last approximately 35 minutes.
   
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1:15 pm
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Lecture | Tomorrowland: Space Age Cities of the 1960s


Rosemary Wakeman, a writer in residence and Professor of History at Fordham University and Author of The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958, will discuss the space age utopian visions of urban life that emerged in the 1960s. The 1960s was an age of optimism and excitement about the future combined with the threat of atomic destruction. The result was a wild assortment of utopian visions of the city that symbolized both fantasies and fears. These space age reveries were a conflicted landscape of modern ideals and the tensions between architecture, environment and technology.
   
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1:15 pm
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Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Bill Wurtzel is a renowned guitarist with the experience to play jazz that fits any event or venue. He has performed worldwide with many great jazz artists. His groups have played for countless private affairs featuring mainstream jazz and the Great American Songbook. He is a member of local 802 and is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
   
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Master Class | Joy in Singing


Art Song Master Class with Paul Sperry.
   
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A 45-minute in-depth look at the exhibition.
   
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


A free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class. The class is limited to 10 participants.
   
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter)


Learn what social networking is and why it's so popular, how to set up an account (if you do not already have one) and send a tweet or connect with friends and/or relatives.
   
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3:15 pm
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Workshop | MS Word 2 Workshop


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include mail merge, tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   
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4:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist's Tour of It's the Political Economy, Stupid


This is an international group exhibition curated by the Austrian-American team of Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette. The title derives from the slogan which in the early 1990s came to define then presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid”. It’s the Political Economy, Stupid brings together a group of artists who focus on the current crisis in a sustained and critical manner. Rather than acquiesce to the current calamity, the artworks, which include videos, photographs, installations, and a commissioned site-specific wall mural, ask whether it is time to push back against the disciplinary dictates of the capitalist logic and, by use of artistic means, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social itself. With artist Linda Bilda.
   
5:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Pepe Romero, Guitar Master Class


   
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Growth, Jobs and the G20 Expectations


Commodity price volatility, weak financial systems, fragile fiscs, protectionism threats, social pressure: Where to start to bring to fruit the "Action Plan for Growth and Jobs" agreed by the G20? Panel Discussion with Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University; Prof. Guillermo Calvo, Director of PEPM, Columbia University; Mahmoud Mohieldin Managing Director, The World Bank Group. Moderator: Sara Calvo.
   
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5:30 pm
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Screening | 8th Annual Artivist Film Festival


The Artivist Film Tour kicks-off its 2012 program with a medley of five award-winning short films addressing the festival’s mission: Raising Awareness for Humanity, Animals, and the Environment through informative and inspiring international films. The program begins with an international travel through the USA, Philippines, Vietnam, the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean, and with a universal message of hope and determination. At 8pm, the Artivist Film Tour will host a spirited panel discussion with invited guest speakers, filmmakers, community leaders, and charitable organizations discussing the urgent importance of animal advocacy in our global community.
   
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Architectural Explorations in Books


Tom Kundig (of Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects) redefines the practice of modern architecture. His reverence for place—for both rural and urban landscapes, and their cultural significance—has resulted in work that celebrates site, community and client alike. His early studies in physics and hard sciences led him to develop an interest with the physics of architecture—a perfect union of the rational and the poetic. Drawing upon a deep devotion to craft and the process of making, Kundig’s designs unite nature with man-made materials, transforming steel and concrete into rich tactile experiences. Together, these interests can be found in Tom’s detailing and raw, often kinetic designs, which explore new forms of engagement with site and landscape. Join Tom Kundig and Town & Country executive editor Mark Rozzo as they discuss the role of place, nature, materials and craft in creating Kundig's bold and sensitive designs.
   
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell


Join a discussion of Daniel Woodrell's book that inspired a movie. With an absent father and a withdrawn and depressed mother, 17 year-old Ree Dolly keeps her family together in a dirt-poor rural area. She's taken aback however when the local Sheriff tells her that her father put up their house as collateral for his bail and unless he shows up for his trial in a week's time, they will lose it all.
   
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Free Wednesday Comedy Shows


Featuring: 6:00 Recess 7:00 Local 154 & TFCP 8:00 Whiskey Rebellion & Stranger 9:00 Someday the Cake & Borealis 10:00 Seersucker & The Faculty 11:00 Improdome
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Marketing Yourself with Confidence


David Lees teaches you effective tools to better position and package yourself to move forward. You will learn: How your Personal Core BrandSM can help you gain a competitive edge How to identify what’s unique about yourself to gain further insights to your specific strengths and distinctive qualities How to use your Personal Core BrandSM on your resume, in an elevator pitch, in social media, and when interviewing Tools to succinctly showcase yourself when communicating your success stories with others Seating is on a first come, first seated basis unless otherwise noted.
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting: Sandro Kopp's There you are


An exhibition by painter Sandro Kopp will feature a series of portraits painted from the artist’s skype-sittings with friends who become his paintings’ subjects. The artist has said of his work, “In exploring these questions – in trying to distill the essence of the difference between these modes of painting – I had the idea of paintings made during video-web-chats: a hybrid of a painting done from life and a painting done from a photograph. Stripping the elements of three-dimensionality and physical presence away, putting a lens (of the webcam) between me and my sitter – but maintaining the elements of time passing and conversation: of engagement.”
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Kukkamari Gröndahl, violin, & Jacob Nordlinger, cello


   
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | John McWhorter reads from his book What Language Is


This illustrated tour of the world's languages throughout history offers insight into human communications while challenging popular beliefs about grammar, discussing such topics as the ways linguists hear speech, the world's vanishing languages, and the hodgepodge nature of English.
   
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint 2 Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating slide animations, adding charts and graphs, and adding audio and video to slides.
   
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Rx, a New Comedy by Kate Fodor


Romance in the age of prescription drugs… Meena Pierotti's job is making her unhappy. Luckily, there's a pill for that. With Michael Bakkensen, Marylouise Burke, Marin Hinkle, Stephen Kunken, Paul Niebanck, and Elizabeth Rich.
   
7:00 pm
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Lecture | Bearing Witness in the Works of Imre Kertész and Herta Müller


A lecture by Thomas Cooper on the two Nobel laureates and their reflections on mechanisms and languages of oppression and the invididual witnessing their operations.
   
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Contributors read from PAJ 100


Several contributors to PAJ 100 will present their response to important themes in the issue.
   
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7:00 pm
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Film | Spanish Cinema: Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh (1997)


With Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later, David is a wheelchair basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. 103 min. A brief discussion will follow the screening.
   
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Sundance Film Festival Documentary: Asif Kapadia's Senna (2011)


Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, SENNA explores the life and work of the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual achievements on the track, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained. 104 min.
   
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested admission

Author Reading | Walter Mosley discusses his book All I Did Was Shoot My Man


Bestselling author Walter Mosley reads from his latest novel, a story about greed, murder and one man's attempt to connect with his family.
   
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Intro to Transcendental Meditation


Come find out why the most popular and most thoroughly researched meditation technique is also the easiest to do. This introductory talk explains the value of Transcendence in your daily life. Release stress, develop happiness and creativity, improve physical health and well-being.
   
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress: Lauren Kearns / Athena Kokoronis / Heather Doyle / Clyde Forth


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 we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.
   
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8:00 pm
$3 suggested admission

Reading | Readings: How I Learned I'll Never Do That Again (Most Likely)


Featuring: MIKE DOUGHTY (Yes and Also Yes); TED TRAVELSTEAD (SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk); DANA ROSSI (The Soundtrack Series); LIANNE STOKES (Playgirl Magazine); LAURA JAYNE MARTIN (McSweeney's Internet Tendency). Created, Produced + Hosted by BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital Featuring Organ Works by Dupre, Elgar, Hindemith, and More


The school's annual recital by the organ students of Paul Jacobs, chair of the Organ Department. The eight organists performing on this free recital are David Ball, Michael Hey, Colin MacKnight, Griffin McMahon, Raymond Nagem, Benjamin Sheen, Janet Yieh, and Gregory Zelek. They perform works for the organ from the 19th century through contemporary music. The program features works by Frank Bridge, Marcel Dupré, Edward Elgar, Paul Hindemith, André Isoir, Dan Locklair, Max Reger, and Louis Vierne.
   
8:00 pm
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Master Class | Student Recital: Mijung Lee, piano


   
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   
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9:00 pm
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Screening | Sundance Film Festival Documentary: Asif Kapadia's Senna (2011)


Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, SENNA explores the life and work of the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual achievements on the track, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained. 104 min.
   
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9:00 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.
   
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11:00 pm
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