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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 26, 2013?

52 free events take place on Friday, July 26 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 26 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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52 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 26, 2013

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Concert | Bret Michaels, Lead Singer of Poison


Bret Michaels made a name fronting hard rock outfit Poison and has tried to forge a solo career in country music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | Selena Gomez, Teen Pop Sensation


Selena Gomez is an American singer and actress. In 2009, Gomez released her first studio album as Selena Gomez & the Scene, titled Kiss & Tell. The album was a commercial success, peaking inside the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. Attendees are encouraged to arrive at 6:00am when the Park opens to the public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Concert | Train, Grammy-Winning Pop Rockers


Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco, California. The band currently consists of a core trio of Pat Monahan (vocals), Jimmy Stafford (guitar), and Scott Underwood (drums). Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   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 and Sacred Sounds Yoga. He has practiced martial arts for over 30 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
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City Walk | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   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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Lecture | Aesthetically Beautiful Experiences with Data


A talk with Giorgia Lupi, founder and design director at Accurat, an information design company based in Milan and New York. Her work in information visualization frequently crosses the divide between digital and print, doing some of the most dense data visualization in hand-drawn mediums. Her talk will illustrate through her work the idea that: 'we always try to build "aesthetically beautiful experiences" with data, in print and in interactivity, and this deals with how we shape the visual models, how we try to build formats, how we try to be "elegant" and simple, even maintaining the complexity of data.'
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

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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Concert | Lunchtime Listen: Levi Stephens


Lunchtime sounds even better now. Enjoy the ambient acoustics every last Friday of the month. Bring a bag of yummies and drink in the reverberations. Today, guitarist Levi Stephens takes listeners to his own happy place.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Yoga at the Library


Free Yoga Classes at the Library bought to you by Shape up NYC. Expert Instructors. Please bring your own mats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Dona Carter, Composer and Pianist


Pianist, composer, music educator, and mentor to students of all ages, Dona Carter has directed a variety of ensembles - large and small - composing and arranging many original pieces. Future performances with her band will include Cleopatra's Needle and the Hartford/Bushnell concert series this summer.She has performed in a variety of venues, in the United States and abroad often sharing the stage with other outstanding musicians and singers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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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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

Film | Paul Thomas Anderson's 2-Time Oscar Winner There Will Be Blood (2008): Mad for Oil


With Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor. Daniel Plainview is a turn of the century prospector in Texas who has success in oil. He gets a tip about an abundance of oil in a rural area and picks it up for a steal by misleading the owning family. Daniel is a true sociopath who attempts to crush anyone who will stand in his way in this extreme character study. 158 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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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1:00 pm
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Film | John Huston's Oscar Winner Key Largo (1948): Bogey and Bacall


Starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Lauren Bacall. Frank McCloud visits the father of an old friend only to discover that his hotel in the Florida Keys has been taken over by gangsters. Then there’s the hurricane to contend with as well. 100 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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 | Tim Burton's Oscar-Winning Ed Wood (1994): Maker of Awful Movies


With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker. A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the once voted worst movie director of all time. 127 Minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Found Sound Nation, New-Music Experimenters


Festival performers, enthusiastic audience members, and unsuspecting passersby can lay down a track with this mobile production team, the education and outreach wing of preeminent new-music experimenters Bang on a Can. Creating on the fly, they turn spontaneous sonic expressions into catchy tracks for later download.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Other | Free Samples of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream


The Ben & Jerry's truck will be doling out free scoops of NYC City Churned ice cream — the favorite ice cream flavor supposedly as voted by New Yorkers. The truck's only there for 2 hours, so make sure you swing by with time to spare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Screening | Long Cook: A Breaking Bad Marathon


Through its four-and-a-half seasons, Breaking Bad has been a beacon of cable television’s continuing golden age. Revolving around the great anti-hero Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and a vivid ensemble of family members, business associates, and threatening nemeses, the series has garnered widespread critical acclaim and pushed the boundaries of episodic storytelling./br> Before the final, eight-episode cycle begins on AMC on August 11, you can see free, public screenings of every episode of the show. Tonight, season 1 will be screened. A "special guest" will be dropping by. All marathon attendees can participate in a raffle to win a pair of tickets for a special advance screening of the first of the series’ final eight episodes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Pre-College Exhibition


An exhibition of work by high school students participating in the Pre-College Program. Projects from animation, advertising, cartooning, painting and photography classes, among others, are included.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 Randy Burns - Traditional Irish songwriting 6:05 Niall Connolly - Alternative folk from Cork, Ireland 6:40 Sonia Montez - Alt pop singer/songwriter
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Chinese American Arts Council performs Romance of the Iron Bow


With women warriors, thwarted lovers, mistaken identities, and wry banter, this engaging Chinese musical theater classic bursts with cheeky humor, riveting movement, and stunning costumes. Five actors and ten musicians reveal the full pleasures of the tradition's fascinating vocal style, sprightly percussion, and martial arts pyrotechnics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

City Walk | The High Line Sunset Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park. Reservations Required RESERVE NOW
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | The Jack Quartet plays new works


Reimagining the traditional string quartet, the ensemble electrifies audiences with explosive virtuosity. Commission: Subject by Jason Eckhardt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Christian Sands, Jazz Pianist


Christian Sands is an emerging jazz force. A recent Steinway Artist, he possesses pianistic technique in abundance, but it perfectly matches his conception. His use of understatement accomplishes a much deeper musical goal. He takes a fresh look at the entire language of jazz: stride, swing, bebop, progressive, fusion, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban.
   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 | Sunset Jam on the Hudson


Friday evening drumming circles! Improvise on African, Latin and Caribbean rhythms at SUNSET JAM ON THE HUDSON drumming circles. The gatherings are led by master drummers MAGUETTE CAMARA and MARY KNYSH. 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 call and response chanting and drumming. Instruments are provided, or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Belly Dance Workshop


Dance to Middle Eastern rhythms while learning traditional movements and combinations. The class focuses on the core muscles, emphasizing muscular isolations. A few notes: Registration begins at 6:30 pm each evening. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. All participants must sign a waiver each night before participating.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Bluegrass & Americana: Trampled by Turtles / The Devil Makes Three / River City Extension


A night of dangerous old-timey music. Combining fierce musicianship with an intense energy, TRAMPLED BY TURTLES invest their “supercharged songs with a hooky playfulness and white-knuckle power” (Esquire) that’s dragging bluegrass kicking and screaming into the modern world. They’re abetted here by THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, who traffic in “bluegrass, folk, rockabilly, and Piedmont blues and ragtime, all played with a blazing punk-rock attitude,” (SF Weekly) and the pop-infused Americana sounds of New Jersey's RIVER CITY EXTENSION.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$3 suggested admission

Book Discussion | Book Group: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson


The Friday Night Book Group meets in the Cafe to discuss this month's selection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Chuck Braman Jazz Band


Chuck Braman was born in Cleveland in 1959, and moved to New York City in 1989. He has had a varied career in jazz as an editor, critic, speaker, teacher, theorist, author, drummer, and bandleader.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Magda Giannikou, Portable Barrel Organ Player


Popular songs and vintage dance ditties roll out of a laterna, a hand-cranked, portable barrel organ shipped directly from Greece, giving listeners a chance to hear this open-air music the way it was traditionally heard, tinkling and buzzing on many Greek street corners, for more than a century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

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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7:00 pm
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Theater | Classical Theatre of Harlem presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream


CTH's A Midsummer Night’s Dream interlaces the stories of four lovers and a comical troupe of bumbling actors from the human world with those of a fairy kingdom in the supernatural realm. This extraordinary production weaves Harlem’s cultural legacy within Shakespeare’s text. Director Justin Emeka (professor of Oberlin college) invites the audience into an enchanted, concrete jungle where African spirits celebrate the playful and fickle nature of love through music, dance, and magic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Saul Landau's Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up (2010)


Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up chronicles half a century of hostile US relations to Cuba by telling the story of the Cuban Five, intelligence agents sent to penetrate Cuban exile terrorist groups in Miami and now serving long prison sentences. 82 min. Post-screening Q&A with Cuba Solidarity New York, moderated by Nellie Bailey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | Eclectic Sounds: Kronos Quartet / The Gloaming


The Gloaming—the generation-spanning supergroup consisting of New York pianist Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman), sean nós ("old style") Gaelic singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, Hardanger fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and the beloved duo, fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill—keep the melodic grounding, stately flourishes, and pulse of traditional Irish music, while bringing it into the future with unexpected jazz and minimalism- inspired twists and turns. Kronos Quartet brings its globally informed repertoire to contemporary explorations of age-old sounds and instruments, with works either composed or arranged for the Quartet by Omar Souleyman, Ramallah Underground, Ram Narayan, and others. A world-premiere collaboration with Greek-American composer Magda Giannikou on laterna, Strophe in Antistrophe reimagines the ancient call-and-response of Greek choruses to portray the counterpoint and blending of two radically different sonic propositions. Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ’s mastery of her homeland's striking zithers, dulcimers, and percussion brings out remarkably contemporary elements, the perfect foil for Kronos’s rich, versatile sound.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Moth Night with The Hunters


7:30-8:30 p.m. Hear The Hunters play some good ole honky tonk 8:30 p.m. Attract moths with a blacklight & photograph them (Moths & lightning bugs are free!) Meet Jim des Rivieres, moth expert and artist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$5 suggested donation

Film | Robert Wise's Oscar Nominee Star Trek (1979): The Original TV Cast


With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley. When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop it. Doors open at 7:30PM, film begins at sunset, weather permitting. Space is limited. Seating is on a first come first serve basis, and there is no admission after 8:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | The Young Dancemakers Company


The Young Dancemakers are a unique summer ensemble of NYC teens touring city-wide performing original choreography created by teens. In their 18th Season the Young Dancemakers are joined by guest artist Doug Elkins and led by director Alice Teirstein and muscial director William Catanzaro.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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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
8:00 pm
Free

Theater | Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew - Calypso Style


The Pulse Ensemble Theatre presents this unique interpretation of the Bard's comedy about the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Love's Labour's Lost, A New Musical Based on Shakespeare's Comedy


Songs by Michael Friedman. Book Adapted by Alex Timbers. Directed by Alex Timbers Romance, revelry and enchanting music ignite in this contemporary yet lovingly faithful musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy. The King and his best buds decide at their five-year college reunion to swear off the joys of women. But when four cute, clever girls from their past show up, they’re forced to reconsider all of that nonsense! Smart, sexy, outrageous, and irreverent, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST is a madcap celebration of true love and coming of age. Obie Award winner MICHAEL FRIEDMAN (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and two-time Tony Award nominee ALEX TIMBERS (Peter and the Starcatcher) reunite for this fresh and unexpected evening of song, sonnets and Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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