42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
This workshop is targeted for adults 55 and older and will meet for ten consecutive weeks. Enrollment ...
more >> and all materials are free to participants. Enrollment is limited to twelve participants and is accepted on a first-come-basis, no experience is necessary.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ...
more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
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"
Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
Emily gives a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton ...
more >> U.S. Customs House.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program:
BACH Suite No. 5 in C Minor
BRAHMS Sonata No. 1 in F Minor
With Juilliard-trained musicians ...
more >> Marie Daniels, viola, and Devon Joiner, piano.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ...
more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
Life is not lived in black and white: reality may have the tinge of dreams and dreams an air of reality. ...
more >> This provocative tension exists between the experiential nature of early American folk art and the fantastical imagery it often displays—between what is real and what is imagined. The same is true of the work of contemporary self-taught artists, which may introduce unique—and sometimes puzzling—expressions that illuminate the iconoclastic nature that is the flip side of the collective American psyche. The viewer is placed in the peculiar but exhilarating position of deciding for him- or herself whether the artwork expresses a disjuncture with reality or an uninhibited embracing of interior life. After all, what is more true, the picture that looks real or the picture that feels real; the observer or the observed?
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Beaded moccasin-making demonstration with Cody Harjo. Visitors are invited to interact with Cody Harjo ...
more >> by observing, listening and asking questions. Please note: This is not a workshop.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn what a blog is, see examples of blogs, learn how to blog and to create your own, using Wordpress.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join a free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the ...
more >> aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hear some of the best young artists around. Featuring the Gonzales Trio (Andrea Gonzales, piano, Gabriella ...
more >> Gonzales, violin and Katrina Gonzales, cello); Julia Jones, violin; Mia Bramel, piano; Elliot Chang, piano; Stella Wong, piano; and Madeleine Vaillancourt, violin.
2:14 pm
free, no reservation required
Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander ...
more >> Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Photography collector Cathy M. Kaplan and Staley-Wise Gallery director Etheleen Staley join distinguished ...
more >> photographer Deborah Tuberville and critic Vince Aletti for an illuminating panel discussion of the roles of women in contemporary photography.
Meredith TenHoor presents some of the markets, transportation networks and other infrastructures that ...
more >> made the mass consumption of designed goods possible in the ‘60s and ‘70s. She discusses how they were designed, what forms of consumption they enabled, and how they have been appropriated and transformed for more sustainable uses today. TenHoor is a PhD candidate in the architecture department at Princeton University and is currently writing a history of architecture and biopolitics in food markets of Paris.
Since retirement has become for many of us the longest phase of our lives, understanding asset accumulation, ...
more >> growth and preservation is critical.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join award-winning writer Alix Kates Shulman for a discussion and reading from her memoir about a marriage ...
more >> transformed by traumatic brain injury. She is the author of, among many other books, the upcoming novel Ménage and the collection A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays. Jason Tougaw (English, Queens College, CUNY) will serve as discussant.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Gil Anidjar, Rochelle Davis, Lubna Hammad, and Hagar Kotef present positions on scholarly issues related ...
more >> to a Palestinian right of return and the Israeli law of return. Topics may include religion and secularism, the dynamics of nationalism and diaspora, definitions of citizenship, ideas of return, the possibility of financial compensations for displaced Palestinians, and the status of the Palestinian community in New York. Public participation is encouraged, to include any and all perspectives on these complicated and controversial issues.
Percy Bysshe Shelley's untimely death by drowning in 1822 was also the beginning of his afterlife, in ...
more >> which his work and ideas received far more acclaim than they ever did while he was alive. This illustrated talk will sketch the untiring work of his widow, the novelist Mary Shelley, to promote Shelley's poetry and fame, and trace the vagaries of his reputation over time. Finally, the Curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, one of the special collections of the New York Public Library. will share a few of the sometimes uneventful, sometimes astonishing and even scandalous stories of Shelley's manuscripts in the hands of posterity. With Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, Ph.D., co-author with Stephen Hebron of Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Mathematical Pi Day is here and it’s time to celebrate with Hausfrau of the Heartland, Bertha Mason. ...
more >> Join Bertha Mason for tasty tidbits about freedom, Mom, and America. While showing off her baking skills, Bertha dishes out heaping spoonfuls of advice on how to be an angel in the kitchen and a devil in the bedroom. Enjoy delicious campy fun from the Master Baker of the Midwest, Bertha Mason. There will be pie!
BAKING WITH BERTHA is an exciting evening of campy theatre and the FOOD Network mixed together in a recipe of fun. Take the homespun humor of Garrison Kellior and toss in a splash of Julia Child, and liberally pepper everything with a little Ethel Merman and you have BAKING WITH BERTHA
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The porn industry has come into many homes and has flourished as a multi-billion dollar industry. According ...
more >> to Forbes, it generates 14 billion dollars in revenue annually. While this industry makes profits, relationships are being destroyed by the distortion of sexual relationships. Tess Fraad-Wolff presents the results of her research on the growing dysfunctional psychological and social effects of the porn industry.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A film documenting the life and career of jazz legend Marian McPartland as a musician, composer, and ...
more >> host of National Public Radio's Marian McPortland's Piano Jazz. A native of England, McPartland arrived in America in 1948 with her husband Jimmy McPartland and established herself as a leading musician in the male dominated jazz world. Now 93, McPartland tells her own story through interviews filmed over 4 years years. the film features McPartland's own harmonically rich compositions and piano improvisations. She is seen performing and regaling audiences with her wit and stories in clubs, concerts, and Piano Jazz recording sessions with Dr. Billy Taylor, Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Diana Krall, Bill Frisell, Nnenna Freelon, Renee Rosnes, Dick Hyman, and others.
85 min.
7:00 pm
$10 suggested admission
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An adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" using found film footage, with an original soundtrack ...
more >> by Dave Douglas, performed by Keystone.
68 min.
Also showing: 657 Second, 2008, 12 min, Directed by Hana Zelezna, in Czech with English Subtitles. Two faces in a frame are swallowed up by a future image because film, as a process of permanent marking, can never change to an empty space and ceaselessly creates endless associations - titles: idea of abstraction, resounding space, technology of impression.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
In Pax Ethnica, a blend of journalism, political history and travelogue, the prolific co-authors examine ...
more >> societies that are role models for diversity and peaceful co-existence by respecting basic human rights.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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This big budget romantic comedy is full of irreconcilable differences, beautiful stars and ridiculous, ...
more >> laugh-out-loud plot twists. It’s all about the Cyrano Agency, a matchmaking service that sets up elaborate, Mission Impossible-style scenarios to help their clients win the man (or woman) of their dreams. Now, their 100% success rate is in danger because a sad sack hedge fund manager wants to date a free spirited gal who just happens to be the head of the Cyrano Agency’s ex. Hollywood hasn’t made a movie this frantic and romantic in decades.
117 min.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Tonight, hear Eleanor Henderson, Myfanwe Collins and Suzzy Roche read from their work. Wine and great ...
more >> conversation.
Bestselling author, blogger and television personality Drummond presents her latest book.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Peace advocate and spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy proves that there is no such thing as impossibility. ...
more >> Well-known for his philosophy, art, music and writings, this Indian-born New Yorker was inspired at the age of 53 to take up weightlifting. Surprisingly, as he aged he became stronger, lifting thousands of pounds in a wide array of fashions. Sri Chinmoy’s lifts of planes, animals, dumbbells and people were often highlighted on evening news programs across the world. See how everything is possible with the power of the heart in this award-winning inspirational short film. Featuring appearances by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu as well as bodybuilding and Olympic legends.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Accompanying the art exhibit Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Elliott Sharp will perform Quadrature ...
more >> for Electricoacoustic Guitar Solo (2005). Performed on a customized Godin Guitar, Quadrature manifests many of the diverse elements in Sharp's compositional and improvisational language.
Following Sharp will be James Ilgenfritz's 2011 opera, The Ticket That Exploded. Based on William Burroughs' 1962 dystopian science-fiction novel The Ticket That Exploded with a cast of five vocalists, 11 instrumentalists, two conductors, and live digital video processing. The program will be followed by a question and answer period with the artists.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Iron your capes, unplug the Bat Signal and set your decoder rings on awesome: the Comic Book Club is ...
more >> in session! The Comic Book Club is a weekly comic book talk show featuring the best comedians in New York talking shop with industry professionals from all corners of the comic book world. Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben.
A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and ...
more >> distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Instructor: Joshua M. Greene. Here's an ideal course for enriching your yoga in the company of inspired ...
more >> teachers and students. Each session includes readings, analysis, audiovisuals, verse recitations and practical insights in India's essential wisdom text. Attendees will discover the message of the Gita, master basic vocabulary and concepts, and acquire skills for teaching and practicing Gita philosophy.
Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents ...
more >> in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
DUNGEON MASTER is your favorite variety show. Come to the next one and remind yourself why. Hosted by ...
more >> Eric Grundhauser.
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A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of ...
more >> Manhattan.
Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic every Tuesday at 11pm. Sign up and you can be a part of ...
more >> the show! Each week, Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win “joke of the night” and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday.
11:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The newest improv jam. STUDY HALL is an opportunity for students of all levels [and all schools] to get ...
more >> more time on stage to do what’s being taught in their classes. Just bring your student IDs and something to work on. Hosted by Lucas Hazlett.
11:00 pm
free, no reservation required