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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 11, 2013?

72 free events take place on Thursday, July 11 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 11 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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72 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, July 11, 2013

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Workshop | Fitness in the Square


Start each morning with a heart-pumping fitness regime for all levels that includes a weekly running club, boot camp from Circuit of Change, and yoga classes from Jivamukti.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Workshop | Spring Into Yoga


Teachers trained in different styles will be giving classes throughout the afternoon, with the scenic park lake in the background. Please bring your own mat, as there will be none provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
$10 suggested donation...

City Walk | Ward/Randalls Island Circular Walk


From the Rec Center to Wards Island pedestrian bridge at 103rd St. Continue to view Hell-Gate,salt marshes, Mill Rock Island, Icahn Stadium,hidden ponds and recent efforts at conservation and restoration of the tidal wetlands. Return via pedestrian bridge. Duration: approx 3 hrs and distance 5 miles. Rain cancels. Bring liquids/snacks. Lunch in East Harlem (optional).
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 am
$3

Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Hike | Hiking Through History: Governors Island’s Historic District


Join the National Park Service for a hike through the National Historic Landmark District on Governors Island. Park rangers will guide you on a 1.5-mile, 1.5-hour tour through over 200 years of history in one of New York’s most historic and beautiful places. Tours begin with the arrival of 10am Manhattan ferry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 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

Workshop | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 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" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Get Fortified: Exploring Castle Williams and Fort Jay


Learn about the rich histories of Fort Jay and Castle Williams, two of the best-preserved forts of their era, on this 1.5-hour walking tour. Explore the depths of the powder magazine and the cells of Castle Williams and climb to the castle’s roof and take in a grand panoramic view of New York Harbor. Tours begin with the arrival of the 12:15pm Manhattan ferry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Performance | Broadway in the Park


The most popular musicals on and off Broadway perform their biggest hits. Today's featured shows: Stomp Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella Pippin Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 iLuminate: Artist of Light Lite FM Host: Helen Little Co-host: Peter and the Starcatcher
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | The Hungry March Band, Legendary Brass Ensemble


Roaring out of Brooklyn comes the Hungry March Band, New York City’s legendary brass ensemble that embodies the spirit of the city’s streets with their inimitable brass sound and inspired eclectic dance. Founded in 1997 for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, HMB has shared their creativity with audiences around the United States, South America, and Europe, where they’ve been enveloped into a long-standing community of brass bands. Their planned and spontaneous performances have included guerrilla art events, mermaid parades, rural raves, European jazz and circus festivals, subway parties, eccentric weddings, community affairs, protests, high art events, and many other forays into the territories of free spirit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Concert | Yuka Aikawa, Award-Winning Pianist


Pianist and composer Yuka Aikawa began playing piano at the age of five in her native country, Japan. She studied at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where she received her M.A. in jazz performance under the guidance of Sir Roland Hanna and Jimmy Heath. During this time, she received the prestigious Michael Feinstein Award for "Outstanding Talent."
   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

Other | Retro Gaming for Adults


Share your passion for Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, or your favorite board game. There will be a demonstration of Boggle. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and join us for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Tour of 2 Folk Art Shows


Free tour of Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Federico Garcia Lorca: Dream Traces in Streets Revisited


A lecture by J. K. Fowler. For years J. K. Fowler has had an affinity for Federico Garcia Lorca, his personal struggles and in particular, his poetry written while living in New York City. A project that emerged out of this was a fascination with retracing Lorca's steps as much as possible throughout the city, bringing to light reinterpretations of (and updates to) the locations and impressions featured in his Streets and Dreams collection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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City Walk | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Raoul Walsh's They Died With Their Boots On (1941): Custer Biopic


Stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy. Highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. 140 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Hike | Hiking Through History: Governors Island’s Historic District


Join the National Park Service for a hike through the National Historic Landmark District on Governors Island. Park rangers will guide you on a 1.5-mile, 1.5-hour tour through over 200 years of history in one of New York’s most historic and beautiful places. Tours begin with the arrival of 2:15pm Manhattan ferry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Accordions Around the World


Featured today: AK - Medieval Bard, Modern World Melissa Elledge - Not your Grand Daddy's Accordion Mayumi Miyaoka - Classics on Accordion Red Wierenga - Post-Jazz Avant-Garde Karen Yair - 1930s Argentine Tango Brooke Watkins - French & Gypsy Music Accordionists will be stationed throughout the park to surprise and delight passers-by.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Other | Chess & Games Club


An introductory Chess group which welcomes new players. Other strategy games also played. Come and refresh your chess game or learn anew and enjoy some other strategy games as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | How to Scrapbook


With Desiree. Are you a scrapbooking beginner or looking for new ideas and themes. Scrapbooking is all your personal style and photos. There is no right or wrong way to scrapbook. You can choose to layout your photos anyway you would like, but if you need some direction and ideas for a balanced layout, this workshop can get you started. Participants will be introduced to basic terms such as cardstock, themes, titles, journaling, pictures, and embellishments. Participants will create their first layouts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Ken Ludwig discusses his book How to Teach Your Kids Shakespeare


Ken Ludwig will discuss his new book, his life in theater, do a short reading, and answer questions from the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | “What Talk Will Bear”: A Discussion


Whether for companionship, religious congress, protest, eating, or comfort, sitting communally remains one of the most powerful and prevalent of human social activities. This simple act held special significance in numerous intentional communities that emerged in nineteenth-century America, and was given physical presence in the form of a variety of styles of wooden benches. Francis Cape's project Utopian Benches consists of a book, We Sit Together: Utopian Benches From The Shakers To The Separatists Of Zoar (published by Princeton Architectural Press), and a group of benches which Cape has fabricated according to the original plans of various utopian communities. For the exhibition, seventeen of Cape's benches are gathered together in the gallery, inviting visitors to sit together and to consider how material culture reflects social structures and values. During the course of the exhibition, the gallery will host a program of open discussions — following a format established by the Quakers — around a range of topics pertinent to the project, beginning with a discussion led by Robert Hullot-Kentor. A distinguished scholar, writer, and translator, Hullot-Kentor is chair of the MA program in Critical Theory and the Arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He will lead a conversation on "What Talk Will Bear" — "bear" in the sense both of tolerate and carry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Got Clutter? Join the Clutter Support Group


Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone. Join the Clutter Support Group, an educational support group for individuals who are struggling with clutter and disorganization. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Performance | Hamilton vs. Jefferson Debate


National Hamilton Scholar Dr. William G. Chrystal will become Alexander Hamilton for the evening to both entertain and educate attendees in a "debate" with Thomas Jefferson. This event, which will be held on the anniversary of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, is presented in conjunction with the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society. The presentation will be followed by Q&A and reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Kayaking in the Park


It's that time of year again - always a huge hit with park visitors, kayaking is now in full swing on Thursdays and Saturdays all summer long! If you haven't been out on the East River in a kayak yet, now's your chance to do it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey perform The Set Up: Jean-Christophe Paré


Initiated in 2012, The Set Up is a multi-year project devised by choreographer Wally Cardona, made in unique cooperation with choreographer Jennifer Lacey and an international assembly of dance-artists viewed as “masters” of their form, operating in their own culturally informed aesthetic. Each Set Up begins with an invitation to one master artist to teach what they think is most important about the form to which they have devoted their lives. It continues with a response period, a final stage of reflection, and the making of “a dance.” The entire process happens in the layers of superficiality and depth inherent in the assumption of the universality of dance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Ecstasy/Apocalypse, a College Show


An exhibition of work by MFA Art Practice students, curated by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Jacquelyn Strycker. The show explores notions of utopia and dystopia, and the intersection of the culmination of and termination of possibilities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Fame, Photographic Portraits of Famous Men and Women


Portraiture has a lengthy, rich, and diverse history in art. In our era, portraits of the famous have a pleasant association: they are familiar and frequently serve as cultural and temporal markers. These portraits, though, can be enigmatic, showing recognized faces but only hinting at complex personalities and the quixotic flow of fortune and tragedy. An effort has been made to exhibit images that are not well known (and some have, in fact, never been printed or publicly shown), in a bid to add something unexpected to what is otherwise familiar. Image:
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | On Deck, a Group Show


With: Thomas Bangsted, Jeffrey Gibson, Charles Hinman, Chris Jones, Karlyn de Jongh, Angelika Krinzinger, Martha Mysko, Jong Oh, Moritz Partenheimer, Antonio Santin, Jonathan Stanish, Dolly Thompsett, Zlatan Vehabovic, Entang Wiharso. A group exhibition referencing baseball terminology for the next batter in line. Fourteen artists from ten countries will queue up for this year's summer show providing an overview of the gallery's 2013-14 season programming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver


Read the book and join the conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights at Sunset Tour


Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Climate Policy for a High-Energy Planet


A lecture by Roger Pielke, Jr., who has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Dance Lessons and Performances


Free dance lessons and performances by Peridance Capezio Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Eddie Martinez's Paper Variables 2013, Works in Handmade Paper


This playful, cartoonish, and abstract series is comprised of a few basic compositions that each feature a handful of repeating forms. By working quickly and on several pieces simultaneously, the artist was able to explore variation within his themes through different combinations of color, form, embellishments, and positive and negative space. The resulting body of work captures the quick, gestural process which is common in the artist's large scale paintings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Crossing the Line: Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process


A group exhibition that features new works by a group of emerging female artists hailing from Nigeria, the Dominican Republic/Haiti, South Korea, Trinidad, Iran, and the United States. All are exploring drawing within the context of their dynamic artistic practices and re-defining how drawing fits into the broader global contemporary art conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Folk Devil


Folk Devi brings together a diverse group of international artists. The exhibition’s title is a reference to sociologist Stanley Cohen’s description of the British media’s hostile reaction towards deviant youth groups in the 1960s, and embodies a deep-rooted fear of subcultures and the morally aberrant. Folk Devil presents a comment on the tendency to create artificial connections between a group of individuals, while it also contains a self-referential statement on the yearly summer shows held at many art galleries under various umbrella themes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | John Hughes' Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986): Hookey Hijinks


Stars Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara. A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that. 103 min. NOTE: Music at 6:00 pm, movie starts at sunset.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Latin Sounds: Lila Downs / Natalia Clavier / Pamela Rodriguez / Raul Campos


Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lila Downs embraces and highlights her origins in the U.S. and Mexico. Downs’ roots have always been an important aspect of her music, as well as the topics of political and social justice, immigration, and transformation, all embedded in the human condition. For over a decade, Lila Downs has traversed the planet, bringing her dramatic and highly unique reinvention of traditional Mexican music and original compositions fused with Blues, Jazz, Soul, and African roots. Known as the long-time live voice of Thievery Corporation, Natalia Clavier’s new solo album, Lumen was produced by Adrian Quesada. With a sultry mix of Jazz-inspired vocals, electronic textures and global influences, Lumen further develops the sound Clavier cultivated while recording and touring with both Thievery Corporation and her husband, Argentinean singer-songwriter Federico Aubele. Born and raised in Lima, Pamela Rodriguez has always been enticed by other paths of life, territories and cities. In her lyrics, Rodriguez intertwines topics of love and indifference with her own experiences to create melodies out of feminine intuition and the instinctive need to interpret reality through a song. The voice of pirate radio in the mid-90s and a native Angeleno, Raul Campos has come from the underground to represent the eclectic airwaves of KCRW in Los Angeles. Campos brings his audience to a place where funky beats, underground rhythms, heartbroken guitars, Latin-loving and daring melodies live.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Park Yoga


Expert instructors lead all levels of yogis. Mats are provided. Presented by Athleta and produced by alignyo. Instructors and assistants from YogaWorks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photos: I-Hsuen Chen's I Am Leaving This City


The exhibition will take the form of a rich sampling of several bodies of recent photographic work, manifesting Chen’s experience of omnipresent middleness between time and place.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Rhode Island School of Design 2013 MFA Photography Show


A group show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Tex-Mex Rock & Roll: Los Lobos / Los Lonely Boys /


LOS LOBOS draws influence from rock, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music. While they have continually redefined and expanded their scope over the forty years they have been together, the rich musicality at the heart of their sound remains ever-present. Since their debut single “Heaven” hit the Billboard Top 100 in 2004, LOS LONELY BOYS, with their unique blend of “Texican rock ’n’ roll,” have sold over 3.3 million recordings to date and have garnered multiple Grammy Award nominations, including one win. ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO has embraced many genres during his 35 years as a musician. His songs, suffused with hard-won personal experience, a sense of positivity, and youthful spirit have made him a lasting presence in the Austin, Texas music scene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | Becky Cooper discusses her book Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers


Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, the creator of mapyourmemories.com walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she asked New Yorkers—notable and otherwise—to “map their Manhattan” and to mail the personalized maps back to her. She will talk about the New Yorkers who contributed maps to her project.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts


Join Adrianne Rubin as she discusses key works from the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Pat Saunders & Rea Tajiri's Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice (1994)


Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American woman who has lived in Harlem for more than 40 years with a long history of activism on a wide range of issues. Through extensive interviews with family and friends, archival footage, music and photographs, the film chronicles this remarkable woman's contribution to social change through some of the most significant events of the 20th century, including the Black Liberation movement, the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, and the Japanese American Redress movement. 57 min. Preceded by a dinner and reception at 6pm. Following the film will be a panel discussion on the legacy of Kochiyama for API activism and organizing today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's King Lear, the Classic Tragedy


Lear will be played by Hudson Warehouse Artist-in-Residence David Palmer Brown who has appeared in Hudson Warehouse productions since 2009. The complex relationships and heart-breaking abuse in this Shakespeare classic will be put together by director Jesse Michael Mothershed, also an Artist-in-Residence with the ten-year-old company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Shape Up NYC


Shape Up NYC, a free citywide fitness program offered by NYC Parks in partnership with Equinox, NYC Service and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, brings you Pilates. Classes are limited to 75 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Bring your own mat.
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Workshop | Shape Up NYC


Shape Up NYC, a free citywide fitness program offered by NYC Parks in partnership with Equinox, NYC Service and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, brings you Pilates. Classes are limited to 75 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Bring your own mat.
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Dance Lesson | Sunset Salsa


Enjoy an evening of salsa dancing and music as the sun sets. The best instructors from NYC lead a free lesson from 6:30pm-7:30pm, followed by open dancing from 7:30pm-9:00pm.
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Screening | Dance on Film


This summer's MELT will include a special weekly movie night hosted by MELT composition faculty. These events feature work that inspires, influences, engages and/or represents the artists' current creative process and artistic concerns. The screenings provide an opportunity for a more in-depth dialogue between students and teachers beyond the workshop setting, as well as a chance to connect in a more social environment. Tonight: Donna Uchizono
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6:45 pm
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Author Reading | Chocolates for Breakfast Book Launch Party


Celebrate the reissued classic novel Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore. The evening will include short readings from the book, and a Q + A with Moore's son Kevin Kanarek and Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures. Readers include: Megan Abbott, Rachel Shukert, Lauren Cerand, Elisa Albert, Alexander Chee, Stephanie LaCava, Rachel Syme.
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7:00 pm
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Film | Dennis Hopper's Oscar-Nominated Easy Rider (1969): Biker Buds


With Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza. Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. 95 min. Preceded by music from Main Squeeze Quartet. Gates open at 6pm. Movie starts at sundown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Flash Fiction Writers Workshop


Pen your own story, poem, or screenplay, at writers workshops guaranteed to improve and perfect. Facilitated by: Miranda McLeod, Master of Fine Arts, New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Interactive Dance: luciana achugar's Feeling Is Believing


Using voice, touch, and imagination, choreographer luciana achugar shepherds 12 participants through Lower Manhattan on a walk like never before, bringing each audience member closer to a more sensual, connected, magical, deeper-than-the-marrow-of-the-bone, vibrational body. Elastic City intends to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Mark Kurlansky reads from his book Ready for a Brand-New Beat: How “Dancing in the Street” Became the Anthem for a Changing America


Popular historian Mark Kurlansky, author of the bestselling, Cod, tells the story of the 1964 Motown hit song that changed America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Outdoor Theater: Shakespeare's The Tempest


On a remote island, Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. This production, by New York Classical Theatre, is a roving production, in that the show and the audience move from place to place within the park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Pop-Up Yoga NYC


Join a meditative end to the day. Open-level Vinyasa style. BYOM (bring your own mat) and let your stress melt away.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Rock & Roll: Generationals / Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside / Waxahatchee


New Orleans’ Generationals have established themselves as the go-to band for sunny pop songs influenced by music of the British Invasion, Soul Stax and Wall of Sound production. Like a cross between Ella Fitzgerald and Tom Waits, Sallie Ford has established herself as one of the most powerful female voices in indie rock, mining that sweet spot between modern and vintage. On their new album, Untamed Beast, the band creates a powerful statement on finding freedom through defying conformity. According to Sallie: ”rock n roll isn’t a genre, its energy.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Les Chauds Lapins play French Swing from the 1920’s to the 1940’s


Les Chauds Lapins (“the hot rabbits”), lead by New York’s Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt, specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1920’s through the 40’s. The group has re-arranged long-forgotten French classics for banjo-ukes, string trio, guitar and winds, mixing the rootsiness of early American jazz with the lushness of a Bernard Hermann film soundtrack.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Screening | Experimental Sounds: Hauschka, Kosminen and Zeigler


This new trio comprises three celebrated experimentalists: pianist Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann), percussionist Samuli Kosminen, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler. Together they perform in a dramatic setting. The evening features a medley of music, including prepared piano, electric cello, drums, and an arsenal of live electronics. Concerts in found spaces with acoustical design by Dave Rife. Architectural consultant Peter Zuspan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Theater | This Great Country, a reworking of Death of a Salesman


In an everyday, vacant space, 17 individuals come together with an audience to breathe new life into Arthur Miller’s epic portrait of self-worth amid shifting economics and fading dreams. Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out run in Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2012, This Great Country is restaged with both Texas and New York actors, fusing Millerʼs drama with 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s unique theatrics and highly charged performance style.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Kinetic Sound Works by Seattle-Based Artist Robb Kunz


Robb Kunz, a Seattle-based sound artist who creates kinetic sculptures that broadcast collaged field recordings, will be presenting Sound Squared, a work-in-progress commissioned for Seattle’s Occidental Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: Cymbeline, Presented by The Drilling Company


Cymbeline has a complex, not a simple narrative, and is sometimes classified as a problem play because it is part history, part tragedy and part comedy. The marriage of Imogen and Posthumus is tested in the context of a rebellion of the Britons against the Roman Empire. Shows are offered while the lot is in use. The action sometimes happens around a parked car which drives away during a performance. At such times, the players stop and the audience moves its chairs, pausing the performance the same way a show would stop for rain uptown in Central Park. It's all part of the fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | The Fifth Dentist


What do you do when your father owns a strip club, and your mother works there? BECOME A DENTIST! Mike King's One-Man-Show "The Fifth Dentist" is a hilarious true story by America's funniest dentist, cutting-edge comedy from one of New York's brightest comics...has been seen on Comedy Central and has opened for Ray Romano! See this work-in-progress before it's off-Broadway production. "Exceptional story!" - Eric Hansen, Producer of the Montel Williams and Whoopi Goldberg show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Concert | Cinema-for-the-Ear: JG Thirlwell's Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms


Experience cinema-for-the ear as ((audience)) presents JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms. This 5.1 album features 11 compositions composed, produced, and performed by Brooklyn-based and record-making Thirlwell. Known by many pseudonyms including Foetus, Zizanie, Clint Ruin, and others, Thirlwell is known for his dramatic, intense, and diverse musical style. Thirlwell’s oeuvre stretches the gamut from orchestrations, big band, and cathartic noise-rock to abstract electronics and chamber music soundtracks, often all in the same album.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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