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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 5, 2010?

48 free events take place on Friday, March 5 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 March 5 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 March . 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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48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, March 5, 2010

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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Concert | Chopin 200: A Bicentennial Celebration of the Composer and His Music - Day 5


A weeklong series of performances celebrating the 200th birthday of Romantic classical composer Frederic Chopin. The festival features 200 hours of the composer’s works performed on four pianos by an eclectic line-up of pianists, including NPR From the Top host Christopher O’Riley; Claire Huangci, winner of the Chopin Competition of Europe; Kimball Gallagher; Vassily Primakov; Jeffrey Swann and the winner of the Chopin Competition in Miami (held the last week of February).
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 am
Free

Conference | Economics Student Union Conference


A one-day conference on the effects of crisis on distribution. The theme is interpreted as broadly as possible to include papers not only on the current economic crisis, but also past economic crises, downturns, and even depressions. The conference unites a diverse variety of ideas, backgrounds, and methodologies to enlighten and educate, stimulate discussions, and develop new research topics. Participants include Michael Hudson (Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City), Peter Skott (Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Dean Baker (Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research), Korkut Ertürk (Professor, University of Utah), Ilene Grabel (Professor, University of Denver), Branko Milanovic (Lead Economist, World Bank Inequality Research Group), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Professor, Professional Practice of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University), Thomas Palley (Economist), Richard Wolff (Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Edward Wolff (Professor, New York University), and Ajit Zacharias (Senior Scholar, Levy Institute).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Conference | The Best and Worst of Aid: The Effectiveness of Support to the Developing World


A one-day conference with the leading thinkers in development economics that will address how to best hold aid agencies accountable for effective solutions to global poverty and highlight which organizations are the best and worst in aid spending. Presentations include: “Aid and Development Today: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times,” by William Easterly, co-director of DRI; “Where Does the Money Go? Trends in Best and Worst Practices in Aid,” by DRI researcher Claudia Williamson; “The Best and the Worst of the International Effort on Failed States,” by Clare Lockhart, co-founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness; and “Historical Lessons: What Did Development Aid Do the Best? What Did It Do the Worst?” by Lant Pritchett, a professor of the practice of economic development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Conference | The Limits of Memory


Recently, much research has been done on memory and the way it functions, circulates, and is mobilized. This research has generally highlighted memory’s positive aspects, construing it as an effective tool for change, healing, understanding, and education. With collective memory in particular, the past is seen as a way to learn lessons and build a better future. While this has inspired new and innovative ways of dealing with memory’s various forms, scholars have tended to focus too often on memory’s positive and empowering aspects, downplaying or disregarding its negative ones. Every act of remembering also implies selective forgetting and reconstruction of the past, often according to present political or cultural needs. This conference addresses some of the limits to theories and practices of memory, focusing on how the uses and abuses of memory are often intimately tied together. Conference speakers include Daniel Levy, Elazar Barkan, Diana Taylor, Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Louis Bickford, Cynthia Milton, Jack Saul, Alex Hinton, and William Hirst.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Basic Internet


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the Internet and how to perform basic searches.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Conference | Wallace Stevens, Henry James, and the Experience of New York


Session I, 10:30 a.m.: Stevens and New York * Chair, Lisa Goldfarb, Gallatin School of NYU * George Lensing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Wallace Stevens, New York, and the 'June Books'" * Joan Richardson, Graduate Center, City University of New York "Wallace Stevens' New York as New Atlantis" * Edward Ragg, Tsinghua University "Bourgeois Abstraction: Poetry, Painting, Gastronomy, and the Allure of New York in Late Stevens" 12:30-2:00 p.m.: Break Session II, 2:00 p.m.: Poetic Configurations and the Temper of the Times * Chair, Lytle Shaw, New York University (English department) * Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania "Wallace Stevens and the New York School" * Natalie Gerber, State University of New York at Fredonia "Of Firecats and Swans: A Word on Stevens' Mixed-Breed Versifying" * Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College and Trent University "Stevens' Translated 'Moment of Light' from 1918: Refracting the Poet's Role" 4:00-5:30 p.m.: Break 5:30 p.m.: Poetry Readings-Introduction to Poetry Readings: Alice Quinn, Poetry Society of America; Panel of Poets Reading: Chair, Emily Fragos, Gallatin School of NYU; Eamon Grennan; Maureen McLane; Tracy K. Smith; Mark Strand. 7:00 p.m.: Reception
   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

Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, and multiple megastores. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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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Lecture | The Forensics of Debt


A lecture by: Michael Ralph, NYU Dept of Social & Cultural Analysis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:45 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
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Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Classic French Cinema: Costa-Gavras' State of Siege (1973)


With Yves Montand. In an unnamed South American country, an American CIA agent is held hostage by a left-wing guerrilla group demanding the release of 150 political prisoners. The plot is a thinly veiled reenactment of the actual 1970 kidnap and murder in Uruguay of Dan A. Mitrione, an official with the United States Agency for International Development. The director's indictment of America's clandestine collusion with Latin American dictatorships caused the film to be withdrawn from the American Film Institute Theater in 1973. 119 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Poetic Configurations and the Temper of the Times


This panel discussion is part of the “Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism" conference.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Computer Surfing for 50+


Hands on using wireless laptops. Prerequisites: Typing and Keyboarding Basics, Basic Mouse Skills, Basic Internet. Explore websites of special interest to active older adults.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Omer Fast's Documentary Spielberg’s List (2003): Extras Speak


Shot on location in Krakow, this film features interviews with Polish extras who played both Jews and Germans in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie Schindler’s List. Views of Krakow’s Jewish ghetto, the remains of its concentration camp, the set of Schindler’s List, and the film itself are interspersed with close-ups of the actors recounting their experiences filming and the relationship of the depicted events to their own lives. At 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw behind the Iron Curtain (1958-68)


By Joy H. Calico, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and Vanderbilt University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Screening | Tim Burton’s Oscar Nominee Corpse Bride (2005): Married to the Dead


With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Tracey Ullman. For his second feature-length stop-motion film, Burton transformed a nineteenth-century European folktale about a man caught between two women—one breathing, one not so much—into a musical filled with exquisitely crafted characters who prove that what appears frightening is often just misunderstood. 76 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz: Jimmy Norman & The Sean Harkness Trio


Jimmy Norman with The Sean Harkness Trio perform jazz, blues, R&B, and original songs as part of the Jazz Legend Winter Series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Reading | Underwater New York: Readings, Music and a Performance


In celebration of the final weekend of the exhibition Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter, Underwater New York brings you shipwreck-themed readings by David Hollander, Claire Shefchik, Sara Weiss, and a contest winner TBA, nautical music by Richard McGraw and Lindsay Sullivan and the Sailors, and a performance by Aaron Diskin of an original musical fragment by Ben Greenman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Book Launch Party: Creston Lea's Wild Punch


Lea's debut collection of short stories, set in northern New England, portray the revelatory moments of small-timers, clergymen, hotheads, day laborers, motorcycle racers, loggers, horse farmers, and young veterans of the Gulf War. In Wild Punch, he achieves the rare congruence of language and landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: DEMATERIALIZE! (Beyond the Zero)


A one-night event exploring the role of human behavior in the construction of meaning in art. This collaborative performance will attempt to replicate an early study on human behavior. The experiment brings together the work of John Watson, Thomas Pynchon and Barnett Newman to establish a theory of behavioral relations. By examining the structure of behavior we can foster an understanding of our own internal order.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photographs: Washington-Melchizedek's Harlem's Storehouse Private Road


The character and integrity of the architecture in Harlem is a classic story of endurance, perseverance, and a true neighborhood. The photographs in this exhibition document that story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Walter Lang's Cheaper By The Dozen (1950): Kid Stuff


With Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy. Based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, this film details the amusing stories found in large families. 85 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Chinese Contemporary Art: Ink Explosion 2010


This exhibit will feature new innovative ink work from some of today’s top Chinese artists: Huang Yan, Cang Xin, Dong Hao, Hu Youben, Han Weihua, Zhang Tiemei and others. Ink is the medium that is possibly the most associated with the arts of China. It has been one of the few constant threads in this ever-changing part of the world for thousands of years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | New Russian Theatre: The Dimitry Krymov Laboratory


Extraordinary Russian director and stage designer Krymov will discuss his work with dramaturg Anna Shulgat and directors Philip Arnoult (Center for International Theatre Development/Towson University) and Adrian Giurgea (Colgate University).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Aesthetics of the Contract and the Contract of Aesthetics


Daniel McClean, a curator and lawyer, will discuss legal contracts from two perspectives: how Post-Conceptual artists use the medium of the contract to create artworks, and how lawyers create contracts and the role that aesthetics might play in their construction and interpretation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Tracking the Social Dynamics of Collective Memory


A lecture by James W. Pennebaker of the University of Texas at Austin. Recently, much research has been done on memory and the way it functions, circulates, and is mobilized. This research has generally highlighted memory’s positive aspects, construing it as an effective tool for change, healing, understanding, and education. With collective memory in particular, the past is seen as a way to learn lessons and build a better future. While this has inspired new and innovative ways of dealing with memory’s various forms, scholars have tended to focus too often on memory’s positive and empowering aspects, downplaying or disregarding its negative ones.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Working with Inhibitions to Creativity


Marilyn LaMonica will discuss how psychoanalytic theory provides a unique explanation of impediments to creative work. Clinical cases of a filmmaker, a painter and a writer will be used to demonstrate how explorations of fantasized object relations lead to freer access to creative potential.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Battle of the Boroughs Talent Competition


A showdown series designed to bring out the best undiscovered bands and ensembles of all genres, instrumentalists, singers, DJs, spoken word artists and performance artists in the five boroughs. Audience members will vote for the best performance of the night. Tonight, artists from Brooklyn battle it out.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$15

Jazz | Blues/Jazz Band: Alex Levin Trio


Originally from Philadelphia, Levin has performed as a leader and a sideman for the last fifteen years. He has played with multiple vocalists and instrumentalists since returning to New York in 2001. He has appeared at clubs throughout the city, and can most frequently be found leading his own trio at such clubs as Kavehaz, Detour, Rue B and Night and Day. Besides leading his trio, he performs regularly with vocalists Ayana del Valle and Heather Moran. He has composed numerous pieces, and has arranged music for top vocalists, including Paulette McWilliams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | Chinese Cinema: Jia Zhangke's The World (2004)


An epic postmodern parable about China’s cultural renovation. A Las Vegas–style theme park on the outskirts of Beijing is the setting for a sort of backstage musical in which the personal dramas of a group of youthful employees play out against a background of small-scale replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the World Trade Center, and other famous landmarks. This ravishing portrait of a delusional China illustrates the difficulty of maintaining interpersonal relationships in a cultural wasteland. 143 min. In Mandarin, Shanxi and Russian with English subtitles. Introduced by the director and actor Tao Zhao.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Other | Evan Ginzburg’s Legends Radio Presents


Featuring: Jazz singer Phil Levy Singer/Songwriter Tom Detrik Screening of the short film “Teddy B- A Darker Shade of Tan” (Directed by Chris Grillo- Meet members of the cast at this show) Comedians Cory Kastle and Roxie Cotton Poet Jon Winell Evan Ginzburg reads from his book Apartment 4B, Like in Brooklyn Special Attraction- Ned Massey (John Hammond Sr.’s final discovery)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Fine Cuts: Student Short Films


A screening series featuring a compilation of short film and video works produced by students as part of their coursework in the Department of Media Studies and Film over the past year. The screening is followed by a Q&A session, led by faculty member Vladan Nikolic, with the students and a public reception for students, guests, and faculty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Music for Solo Guitar by Villa-Lobos


Keith Calmes performs in honor of the composer's birthday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Participatory Community Media


As media ownership is increasingly centralized, communities in Latin America have been turning to radio and are building local media projects to support campaigns resisting corporate globalization. Please join folks from Prometheus Radio Project and Palabra Radio and learn about participatory community media projects throughout the hemisphere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Poetry Reading | Patricia Smith reads from her poetry


Smith is the author of five acclaimed poetry volumes, most recently Blood Dazzler, one of NPR’s Top Five Books of 2008.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Rania Ajami's Documentary Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards (2004)


Using original and archival footage, this film investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody -- between Islam, modernization in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and Qaddafi's 40-year-old regime. Rania Ajami is an award winning filmmaker based in London and New York. With this film, she became the first western director to work in Libya's newly opening society. Her latest film, a fantastical comedy called Asylum Seekers, is currently traveling the film festival circuit. 57 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Senior Thesis: Edward Bond's Chair


The Saved playwright's evocation of a brutal, dystopian future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Tim Burton’s Oscar Winner Sweeney Todd (2007): Barber-ism


With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. Based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim, this is the infamous story of "the demon barber of Fleet Street," who sets up a shop in London that becomes the site of sinister goings-on. 116 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Leo Tolstoy's The Realm of Darkness: Evil vs. Reform


2010 is the centennial of Tolstoy’s death. In celebration, the theater program invites you to see its new production of his play. This production moves the play’s action from 19th-century Russia to present day small-town America. There, evil looms large, but reform and renewal are still possible. Translated by Marvin Kantor with Tanya Tulchinsky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Works by Fauré, Gershwin, Graf and Telemann


With: Susan Friedlander, flute; Andrew Bolotowsky, William Dickerson, and Suzanne Gilchrest, flute; and Dana Pielet, piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Theater | Senior Thesis: George Bernard Shaw's The Inca of Perusalem


Shaw's short historical satire from 1916.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Miz Metro: Ska/R&B


Unconventional amalgams of ska, soul, and R&B; an impish sense of style; and a commanding stage presence are the hallmarks of Laura O'Reilly, aka Miz Metro, who'll join her impressive eight-piece band for tracks from her debut album Unlimited and beyond.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Theater | Senior Thesis: Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis


The playwright's meditation on depression and suicide.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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