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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 15, 2011?

38 free events take place on Friday, July 15 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 July 15 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 July . 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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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 15, 2011

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Concert | Brad Paisley, Country Superstar


The West Virginia-born singer has had 16 #1 songs on the country chart, including "I'm Still a Guy," "She's Everything" and "Online."
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Concert | Chris Brown, Pop Singer


Brown is most famous for assaulting his girlfriend Rhianna, but he has had a run on the charts that includes "Run It!," "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" and "Kiss Kiss."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute. He has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
Free

Park Walk | Fitness Walk NYC


This free fitness walk is one hour long and led by experienced Instructors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
Free

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

Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only. Join the fun and meet new friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Supervised Resumé Lab


Hands-on using wireless laptops. Use this supervised lab time to create and save a resume in Microsoft Word. Assistance with document formatting and proofreading will be available. Please bring a written draft of your resume and a USB drive to save and print your resume. (Please note: This is not an instructor led class or a career advisement session.)
   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

Screening | Extraordinary Moves: Judy Dennis' The Dancer Films


Extraordinary Moves is an 8-day series. Today: New York Premiere! The Dancer Films is a collection of very short films based on Jules Feiffer's beloved cartoon character, the modern Dancer. Director Judy Dennis brilliantly translates six of Feiffer's memorable cartoonsˆ’A Dance to Spring, A Dance to Art, A Dance to Summer, A Dance to the Loss of Innocence, A Dance to the New Year, and A Dance to the End of Summer from the page to the soundstage, alchemizing drawing into dance for film. Brought to life by Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancer Andrea Weber, the Dancer is an icon to optimism and earnestness as she dances to celebrate a cycle of seasonal, emotional and political milestones. Produced by Ellen and Judy Dennis. Choreography by Susan Marshall and by Larry Keigwin, and original music by Jane Ira Bloom. Playing continuously from 11am to 7pm daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talk | Building Your Professional Network with LinkedIn & How to Use It in Your Job Search


In this lecture, John Crant will teach you about NETWORKING and how to do it effectively; how to get started with LinkedIn.com’s networking personal profiles; how to expand your network; and how to utilize your new network in your search for your next career challenge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Extraordinary Moves: Australia's Strange Fruit / Michael Moschen / STREB


Extraordinary Moves is an 8-day series. Today: Australia's Strange Fruit's The Three Belles -- East Coast Premiere! Australia's Strange Fruit is a Melbourne-based performing arts company that produces and performs a remarkable style of work that fuses theatre, dance and circus, using a unique elevated medium -- 13-foot-high swaying, flexible poles. Seductive and charming, The Three Belles transport the audience into a dreamlike world of period charm and frivolity. Through a whirlwind of dance and movement, they transcend past, present and future as they bewitch and enchant their admirers. Michael Moschen's Triangle -- MacArthur laureate Michael Moschen is considered to be the supreme juggling virtuoso of our time. His creations have been seen on stage, screen, and television as well as in leading theatre and dance festivals all over the world. In Triangle, Moschen's incredibly famous, jaw-dropping piece, three balls and a triangle become a musical and visual work of art. STREB's Human Fountain -- World Premiere! Inspired by the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, Human Fountain involves performers leaping from as high as 30 feet from a three-story, open, honeycomb structure in order to create cascades of airborne liquid muscle. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight, and wild action sport, which captures kids, older people and the general public's hearts, minds, and bodies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Issac ben Ayala, Jazz Pianist


Isaac ben Ayala has performed and recorded with many notable bands and greats from Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Louis Bellson, Leon Thomas, Frank Foster, David Murray, James Spaulding, Roy Hargrove, and Wynton Marsalis, to The New York City Ballet, The Sultans of Swing, The Donald Byrd Dance Company and Joe Piscipo. He has scored numerous films and can be heard on the piano in Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006), The Mark Twain Prize Honors Billy Crystal (2007), and Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters (2008). In addition, his orchestral arrangements were commissioned by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans and are currently being performed by orchestras around the world. Isaac ben Ayala received his Bachelor of Music from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1991, and was Principal Accompanist for The Boys Choir of Harlem from 2005 to 2007.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Nicolae Helerea, Accordionist


Enjoy a taste of Paris in the park at lunchtime with musette style accordion music.
   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

Workshop | Featured Library Database: Catalog Clinic


Hands on using wireless laptops. Find books, DVDs, audiobooks, eBooks and more in the NYPL Online Catalog (catalog.nypl.org). Learn tips and tricks to make your searches more effective. Place holds and renew items in the library or from home. Bring your library card and PIN number to class so that you can log in to your account.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | French Cinema: Marcel Carné's Therese Raquin (1953)


Sordid story of a young country girl whose life is slowly engulfed in a murderous love triangle. Desperate to be together, Therese and her lover conspire to murder Therese's husband and initiate a deteriorating series of events that includes a blackmailer's demands. Based on the novel by Emile Zola. 102 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Extraordinary Moves: Australia's Strange Fruit / Michael Moschen / STREB


Extraordinary Moves is an 8-day series. Today: Australia's Strange Fruit's The Three Belles -- East Coast Premiere! Australia's Strange Fruit is a Melbourne-based performing arts company that produces and performs a remarkable style of work that fuses theatre, dance and circus, using a unique elevated medium -- 13-foot-high swaying, flexible poles. Seductive and charming, The Three Belles transport the audience into a dreamlike world of period charm and frivolity. Through a whirlwind of dance and movement, they transcend past, present and future as they bewitch and enchant their admirers. Michael Moschen's Triangle -- MacArthur laureate Michael Moschen is considered to be the supreme juggling virtuoso of our time. His creations have been seen on stage, screen, and television as well as in leading theatre and dance festivals all over the world. In Triangle, Moschen's incredibly famous, jaw-dropping piece, three balls and a triangle become a musical and visual work of art. STREB's Human Fountain -- World Premiere! Inspired by the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, Human Fountain involves performers leaping from as high as 30 feet from a three-story, open, honeycomb structure in order to create cascades of airborne liquid muscle. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight, and wild action sport, which captures kids, older people and the general public's hearts, minds, and bodies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Harlem Dances with the National Dance Institute


Come see local dancers demonstrate their moves. For over 34 years, National Dance Institute, a non-profit organization, has transformed the lives of more than 2 million public school children through award-winning arts and learning programs. Children discover the arts through dance and develop standards of excellence, a pride of achievement and a curiosity about the world that supports their success in school and in life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Painting: Stephen Cimini's secrets in nature


The remaining 30 paintings from the series will be exhibited. The entire series consists of one hundred 6-inch square paintings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | (re) Zoning, Manicured, a Performance


The Hanns Eisler Nail Salon/Nail Workers Chorus will join Maria and Nancy at Unique Hairstylist to present a new cabaret performance: (re) Zoning, Manicured, a music soiree to describe and denounce the forces of dislocation and dispossession at work in our communities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Friday Evening Drumming Circle


Improvise on African, Latin and Caribbean rhythms at the drumming circle. The gatherings are led by master drummers MAGUETTE CAMARA, PETER HAWES, MARY KNYSH and PAMELA PATRICK. After beginning with the teaching of traditional drumming patterns, and establishing a steady heartbeat pulse, participants are then asked to contribute their own rhythmic patterns as part of a call-and-response chanting and drumming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | NYSkies Seminar: Stellar Demographics, the HR Diagram


This seminar examines the vital statistics of stars, the census of the heavens, the stellar demographics. Stars come in many sizes, temperatures, masses, physical behavior. how to organize them into groups convenient for study? What started out in the dawn of the 20th century as a curious inquiry about the Pleiades star cluster developed into one of the most important and valuable diagrams in all of astronomy, the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, or HRD.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Outdoor Theater: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov


The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. Performed by Hudson Warehouse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | No Name and A Bag O’ Chips Comedy/Variety Show


The groups’ popular “Summer Reading Show” will feature authors and storytellers - including Michele Carlo (“Fish Out Of Agua”) - reading from new and soon-to-be published/produced literature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Rock Music: The Radio Dept. / Asobi Seksu


With hushed vocals and dreamy melodies, enigmatic Swedes The Radio Dept. have been bewitching listeners for nearly ten years -- never more so than on last year's Clinging to a Scheme, one of 2010's most heralded discs. Dreampop duo Asobi Seksu are sometimes jangly, sometimes ethereal, and sometimes very noisy. Sometimes all at the same time. Celebrating their tenth year together, their latest album, Fluorescence, shows no signs of fading.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Sideshow Goshko


Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, NY Fringe Excellence Award, Sirius XM) invites some of NY’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There’s live accordion music, a challenging trivia game, and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Among tonight's featured performers are Margot Leitman (Comedy Central, VH1, Moth GrandSlam Champion), Carter Edwards (Upright Citizens Brigade Theater) and Dan Allen (Sacapuntas!).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Sunset on the Hudson with Guitarist David Ippolito


Enjoy the gorgeous sunset and mellow sounds of New York’s acclaimed Guitar Man David Ippolito from this spectacular grass-covered pier that stretches 900 feet into the majestic Hudson River.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Waterfront Workouts: Belly Dance


A dance movement class that focuses on the core muscles, emphasizing muscular isolations. Dance to Middle Eastern rhythms while learning traditional movements and combinations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Shirley Caesar, 11-Time Grammy-Winning Gospel Singer


The 11-time Grammy-winner SHIRLEY CAESAR, “The First Lady of Gospel,” has been singing for the Lord for six decades with the power and the glory move mountains and her light has never shined brighter. VY HIGGINSEN’S GOSPEL FOR TEENS CHOIR, a prize-winning Harlem educational program/vocal group, will perform an opening set.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Screening | Work-in-Progress Documentary: Apache Line: From Gangs to Hip Hop


This film takes us on a journey through the trials, tribulations and triumphs of NYC street gangs/families that celebrated urban culture, through artistic expression, prior to the advent of what we know as "Hip Hop culture". This documentary is a testament to the power of transforming negative energy to positive and captures testimony from some of the folk heroes who reveal untold chapters of New York City's urban history. Hip Hop icons such as: Afrika Bambaataa, T.KID 170 and INK 76 share their experiences during the transition from gangs to Hip Hop culture. 60 min. Q&A with Jorge Pabon, more speakers to follow. Also screening: Viccin' Spree by Jorge "Fabel" Pabon, 12 min. A short on back in the day Hip Hop Fashion with a comedic twist...starring Lil Lep, Flip Rock, B-Boy Fever One, Ness, Sweepy, Fly T, Black Crash, Fabel, Buddha, Louie Familia and Gato.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance & Music: Armitage Gone! Dance / Vijay Iyer / Dance Grand Moultrie


See the the world premiere of "UnEasy," a special commissioned work featuring the innovative Armitage Gone! Dance company (pictured) and set to an original composition by Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. This unique work merges the worlds of dance and music as five dancers weave and circulate among four musicians - a drummer, guitarist, cellist, and keyboardist. This spectacular work unites Karole Armitage’s dramatic choreography featuring ballet, modern and street styling with Vijay Iyer’s distinctive compositions inspired by Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, György Ligeti, and basic kinematics. The program will open with Armitage Gone! Dance performing “Quantum” from its acclaimed ballet, “Three Theories” to a score by Rhys Chatham for 100 electric guitars and drums. Heralded as “obviously someone to watch” by The New York Times, Darrell Grand Moultrie is fast becoming one of America’s most sought after choreographers. The Princess Grace Award winner has carved out an impressive career behind the stage as choreographer as well as on stage as Broadway performer. His many accomplishments as choreographer include works for prestigious institutions such as The Juilliard School, Ailey2, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and Colorado Ballet. Moultrie premieres his company, Dance Grand Moultrie, for the first time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Film | Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud's Despicable Me (2010): Animated Fare


With the voices of Steve Carell, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. 95 min. Free popcorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: All's Well That Ends Well


All's Well That Ends Well is a fairytale for grown-ups. This beguiling fable follows the low-born Helena, one of Shakespeare’s most resourceful heroines, as she inventively surmounts obstacle after impossible obstacle in order to win the love of the aristocratic and haughty Count Bertram. Directed by Daniel Sullivan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: The Comedy of Errors


The Drilling Company will present The Comedy of Errors, directed by Kathy Curtiss. This series typically presents intrepid, bare-boned and often gloriously ingenious adaptations of the classics. This production adapts Shakespeare's comedy of mischance and mistaken identity to a modern pizzeria in Little Italy. The rivalry of the houses of Syracuse and Ephesus is updated to a struggle between two prominent Italian restaurant.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Side O’ Ranch, “Anti-Folk” Duo


Molly D and Sam are the brother/sister anti-folk duo known as Side O' Ranch. Humorous and lyrical, Ranch is punk-rock meets country, sans the serious. Upbeat with debaucherous undertones, Side O' Ranch is a show not to be missed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Film | French Film Outdoors: Yves Robert's My Father's Glory (1990)


A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence. 105 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

Performance | Thank You, Robot’s Summer Fridays Comedy Show


Summer Friday’s is a showcase for independent and established improv teams. For each show, two teams join Thank You, Robot to perform sets of unscripted comedy, never seen before and never to be seen again.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
$5
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