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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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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international more 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. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 am
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 more 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. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Historic Imagination: The Basics of Researching and Writing History


History is a process which occurs in the present. This class for writers and readers will explore contemporary more ideas about past events and places through the historical imagination. Access to digitized books, newspapers, and photographs will help participants learn approaches for the critical and constructive use of sources and uncover stories that improve both creative and historical writing. less
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2:15 pm
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Workshop | Word Processing with MS Word 2003


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the features of Word 2003. Topics include entering data, more editing and saving files, moving and copying data, formatting and print previewing documents. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe InDesign


InDesign has proven itself to be the undisputed champion in the page-layout wars. In this seminar they’ll more demonstrate the ease and power of InDesign. Create some layouts from scratch, as well as demonstrate some of the more powerful functions on existing layouts. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 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 more 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. less
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Radio as Prosthesis of Prayer


A lecture by Anderson Blanton, PhD Candidate. Respondent: Professor Brian Larkin, Dept of Anthropology, more Barnard College. less
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | The Socio-Ecological World of New York's Rooftop Pigeon Flyers


This talk by Colin Jerolmack examines a group of working-class men who breed and fly pigeons from their more rooftops in New York City. It explores how the flyers experience their neighborhoods through their animal practices and shows how ethnic whites transmitted this practice to non-whites. These men form a distinct collective that is strongly rooted in their solitary animal practices but is given meaning largely through social interactions. While community studies usually find conflict among different working-class racial-ethnic groups who share urban neighborhoods, pigeon flying fosters solidarity among Italian, Hispanic, and African American New Yorkers of varying ages. The study highlights how animal practices can organize social relationships as well as connections to the environment. Refreshments will be served less
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


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5:45 pm
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Screening | 15 Days of Dance: The Making of Ghost Light


The last of four programs in the series featuring selections from Elliot Caplan's 18-hour film. The filmmaker, more choreographer Brian Reeder, and ABT dancers will be present to discuss the excerpts. less
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6:00 pm
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Concert | All4One Piano Duo performs works by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Dizzy Gillespie, and more


The unconventional performance by the All4One Piano Duo is an aural and visual tour de force. Pianists more Alexander Wu and Frank Ponzio seamlessly alternate solo and duo playing with storytelling and piano underscoring. less
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6:00 pm
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Concert | All4One Piano Duo, An Unconventional Performance


The unconventional performance by the All4One Piano Duo is an aural and visual tour de force. Pianists more Alexander Wu and Frank Ponzio seamlessly alternate solo and duo playing with storytelling and piano underscoring. less
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Festival Neue Literatur


The annual event brings some of the best up and coming German-speaking authors to New York, where they more will interact with well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings. Readings will be held predominantly in English; at times, both German and English will be used. This year's edition of the festival focuses on the notion of mobility in today's increasingly globalized world. Whether depicting the struggle of establishing an identity in a new society, or the longing to leave behind small town surroundings, these nine authors will present unique and refreshing takes on ideas of mobility and the human experience. This session: "A House is Not a Home" featuring Rivka Galchen, Olga Flor and Julya Rabinowich in conversation. Moderated by Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nuechtern. "Up, Up and Away" featuring Joseph O'Neill, Maria Cecilia Barbetta and Perikles Monioudis in conversation. Moderated by Strigl and Nuechtern. less
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe InDesign


InDesign has proven itself to be the undisputed champion in the page-layout wars. In this seminar they’ll more demonstrate the ease and power of InDesign. Create some layouts from scratch, as well as demonstrate some of the more powerful functions on existing layouts. less
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Author Reading | Jon Jeter discusses his book Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People


A former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Southern Africa and South America, Jeter presents a book that more is a powerful, accessible, and eye-opening analysis of the global economy. less
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Film | Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto (2005): Out of Step


With Liam Neeson. A transgender Irish man struggles to find his way in a society that doesn't understand more him. 128 min. less
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Lecture | Putting the Torch to Colorblindness: Race, Riots, and the Limits of Universalism in France and the US


Thomas Sugrue, professor of History and Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, will give this talk.
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Lecture | Rediscovering the Inscriptions of Campa


A lecture to be given by Arlo Griffiths, professor of Southeast Asian history at the French School of more Asian Studies. He will explore recent developments in the study of the written records of ancient &#145;Indianized&#146; communities and cultures in Southeast Asia. Griffiths will use as his examples a body of documents inscribed on stone by people of the ancient Campa kingdom(s), which lay in what is now central and southern Vietnam. The study of Campa inscriptions involves texts in Sanskrit and in the poorly known vernacular Old Cam language, which belongs to the Austronesian language family. The presentation will discuss general aspects of Southeast Asian epigraphy, as well as specific aspects of the Campa documents and the history of their study. Some new inscriptions, which throw interesting new light on the history of Campa and its place within the larger scale development of Southeast Asian history, will be selected for close inspection. Griffiths' main fields of interest are Hindu religious/ritual literature in Sanskrit, and inscriptions of Southeast Asia in Sanskrit and vernacular languages. His approach to the ancient history of Southeast Asia is primarily epigraphic, and he is currently involved in projects concerning the inscriptions of ancient Cambodia, ancient Indonesia, and Campa. less
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Lecture | Jewish Identity and the “Jewish Question” in France: a propos of Irène Némirovsky


Susan Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative more Literature, will speak. less
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6:15 pm
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Workshop | Google Docs


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to create, edit and share online documents using Google's more ever-evolving word processing, spreadsheet & presentation programs. A google email (Gmail) account is required in order to participate in this class. less
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Moneymakers: The History of Counterfeiting in America


Benjamin Tarnoff teaches you the history of counterfeiting from the seventeenth century to the Civil more War. Hear about the biographies of the individual counterfeiters themselves, colorful characters whose spectacular exploits and jailbreaks made them the outlaw celebrities of their day. The conditions that made America a counterfeiter's haven for much of its history and the role counterfeiting played in the making of the American financial mind will be explored. See how the moneymaking mentality has endured to this day, even as actual counterfeiting of currency has declined. less
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | 2 Poets: Toni Mergentime Levi / Harriet Levin


A joint reading with two local poets.
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Performance | Buried Treasure: Women Playwrights 1640-2010


Featuring scenes from plays by women playwrights often under-represented on the world’s stages, the more spring “scene fest” project will explore material from the 17th century to contemporary writing. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Immigration and Islam


A discussion including questions such as: What impact do Muslim immigrants and Islamic practices have more on the societies they join? What unique challenges do Muslim immigrants face? In both America and Europe, how is the Enlightenment ideal of tolerance balanced against the realities of vast cultural and religious differences? Featuring Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at its Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Tariq Modood, professor of sociology at the University of Bristol and director of the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship; and Aristide Zolberg, Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the New School. Chase Robinson will moderate. less
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Staged Reading | J. Julian Christopher's Man Boobs: Sagging Self-Esteem


Two men begin to share a night of passion until issues of obesity and self-esteem overpower their sexual more and emotional connection. less
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year: May-December Attraction


Join the reading group for a lively discussion of this month's selection, the story of an elderly writer more who meets a young woman. less
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Author Reading | Peter Hedges reads from his book The Heights


Screenwriter and director Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Pieces of April) reads from his novel more about troubled souls in an idyllic Brooklyn neighborhood. less
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Discussion | Reclaiming Women's Health


It's International Women's Day, and you are invited to consider indigenous perspectives on women's health more and wellness with Eve Agee. Agee is medical anthropologist, spiritual life coach and holistic healer. She has worked as a women's health researcher in the U.S. and West Africa, and is the author of The Uterine Health Companion: A Holistic Guide To Lifelong Wellness. less
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Performance | Storytelling and Music: The Adam Wade Show / BTK Band


Moth storytelling favorite Adam Wade has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories more for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A featured guest will start the evening off. The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, will follow. Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while music and lyrics are improvised to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos. less
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Staged Reading | Susan Ferrara's Play Suicide on Pennsylvania Avenue: Death and Debt


Directed by Jessi D. Hill. Timely and terrifying, this tale is one woman's fight to get her head above more water after the death of her husband, which left her drowning in debt. Faced with supporting two young sons on her own, Fran reaches out to her sister and brother-in-law for help, but this well-meaning duo doesn't know the first thing about how to fill the void. Desperate and out of options, Fran begins receiving phone calls from a mysterious man offering help. less
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Dance Performance | Dance: Body Cartography Project / Kensaku Shinohara / Emily Coates


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall and spring seasons. Artists are more selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | North/South Consonance’s 30th Anniversary Gala


Featuring chamber orchestra works by composers from the Americas, including new and recent compositions more by Elizabeth Bell, Edward Green, Max Lifchitz, Hilary Tann & Stephen Yip. Performers include: Arthur Campbell, clarinet; Megan Levin, harp; Helen Lin, piano; Max Lifchitz, conductor; and the North/South Chamber Orchestra. less
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Concert | Vocal Performance Faculty Recital


   New York City, NY; NYC
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