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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 23, 2012?

59 free events take place on Friday, March 23 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 23 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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59 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, March 23, 2012

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Conference | Sounds of the City: The 2012 Pop Conference


Now in its 11th year, the EMP Pop Conference is traditionally presented at EMP Museum in Seattle. This year, for the first time, the conference will be staged in New York. With six or seven simultaneous panels, the 2012 Pop Conference promises to be one of the largest and most diverse gatherings of popular music intellectuals ever assembled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

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 | 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., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free

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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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   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

Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Keystone Symphonic Choir


From Keystone High School (LaGrange, Ohio). Program to be announced.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Film | Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948): Give 'Em Enough


With James Stewart, Farley Granger and Cedric Hardwicke. Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder," their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality. 81 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Marleen Gorris' Mrs. Dalloway (1997): Based on Virginia Woolf's Novel


With Vanessa Redgrave and Rupert Graves. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an elaborate party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long ago summer. 97 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Symposium | Mediatic Networks in Postwar Paris: Art, Sound, and Film in Motion


This interdisciplinary symposium will explore avant-garde experimentation in the fields of music, cinema, and the visual arts during the tumultuous 1950s and ’60s in Paris. Speakers will analyze how new approaches to serial music, optics, and phenomenology informed Jesús Soto’s artistic practice and sparked new concepts of postwar Kinetic art and related practices.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Subversive Shaw: An Introduction to the Life and Work of George Bernard Shaw


Under the cloak of sublime comedy, Shaw sought to expose the hypocrisy of Victorian society and morality. He was the author of some sixty plays (including Pygmalion, Major Barbara, and Caesar and Cleopatra), prefaces which were sometimes longer than the plays themselves, five novels, music and theatre criticism, innumerable socialist pamphlets and political tracts, and several thousand letters. This presentation will explore the life and work of this brilliant, witty, and subversive literary figure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Workshop | Computer Surfing for 50+


Hands on using wireless laptops. 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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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


Emily gives a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | New Horizons Adult Band Spring Concert


Tap your toes to the music and let spring bloom in your heart with the New Horizons Adult Band, performing a special spring concert for all ages. New Horizons is a woodwind and brass band comprised of retired/professional people from a variety of cultural backgrounds from the Third Street Music School and Hamilton-Madison House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Robert Redford's Oscar Winner A River Runs Through It (1992): Generational Tug of War


With Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt and Brenda Blethyn. Two brothers rebel against their stern Presbyterian minister father. While both sons choose different paths later in life, they learn about love and understanding while fishing the Big Blackfoot River of Montana. 123 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Conference | Conference in Progress: A Conference on Conference


This is the NYU French Department Graduate Student Conference. Including a Keynote Address by Prof. Sarah Kay, Department of French, NYU. Additional details to be announced.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Free

Conference | Queer Christianites: A Conference


Both queerness and Christianity challenge received notions of the good and the natural. While these terms are often depicted as mutually exclusive, queer Christians have been quietly constructing new identities, articulating new understandings of faith, and creating new religious communities. With speakers from across the country, the conference focuses on the history and lived experience, practice and theology of three apparently incompatible ideals of queer Christian life: Celibacies, Matrimonies, and Promiscuities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Free Music Fridays


Featuring Debbie Miller, Shanna Zell, Melissa Lusk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Next in Line: Drawing in the 21st Century


With work by Joseph Burwell, Martí Cormand, Adam Fowler, Margaret Inga Wiatrowski, Dustin London, Chris Nau, Allyson Strafella, and Ilene Sunshine. Broad in its scope, Next In Line aims to engage the viewer in a lively visual discussion of emerging implications and impact of art making's most fundamental gesture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Do We Live in a More or Less Violent Time?


A conversation between two distinguished social researchers and commentators, Steven Pinker and Robert Jay Lifton, about whether we live in a more or less violent time. Pinker's most recent book is The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined and Robert Jay Lifton is author of, most recently, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir. This discussion follows from an exchange between Pinker and Lifton published recently in the New York Times, "Sunday Dialogue: Do We Live in a Less Deadly Time, or Not?." The event will close with audience Q&A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Symposium | Moving Into the Out There: Indeterminacy and Improvisation in Performance and Environmental Practice


The Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance's fourth annual symposium on dance, movement, and the environment. The two-day event brings together dancers, choreographers, designers, ecologists, advocates, and scientists for interactive panel discussions, field workshops, and networking. Into the Out There highlights the insights and discoveries emerging from the performative work completed throughout 2011 at Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island. This year’s event also introduces the iLANDing method, an evolving approach to facilitating collaborations between dancers and environmental professionals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | On the Verge: Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp


BLDGBLOG founder Geoff Manaugh and The New York Times Data Artist in Residence Jer Thorpe meet for a moderated conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Toru Ishii's Contemporary Life


This exhibition deals with visualizations of bodies (company employees) and sceneries (convenience stores, fast food restaurants, vending machines, urban spaces) of contemporary social life. Based on a definition of the act of dyeing as "fixation = conservation", Ishii utilizes paintings as media for conserving icons and surface of a universal language that is characteristic of today's capitalist society. As a successor of the new generation of Japanese traditional crafts, Ishii is developing a fusion of ancient craft and contemporary art, and is establishing new value of innovative traditional art in the present time. Ishii is taking PhD at Tokyo University of the Arts. He has had solo exhibition at Mizuma Action and Tokyo Operacity Gallery among others in Tokyo. This is his first solo show in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Performance Art: Liz Magic Laser's I Feel Your Pain


Featuring video from her Performa 11 Commission as well as a live performance at the opening reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | The Lysander Piano Trio


In April 2011, the LYSANDER PIANO TRIO won both the Grand Prize at the Coleman and the 1st Prize at the Arriaga Chamber Music Competitions. Previously the Bronze Medal winner and highest ranked piano trio in the 2010 Fischoff Competition, the ensemble was formed by graduate students at the school in New York in the fall of 2009.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Art Therapy Lecture: Poetry That Inspires Treatment


Sandra Buechler, PhD, a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in Manhattan, speaks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Austrian cult favorite duo known as “Attwenger”


For the first time ever, the Austrian cult favorite duo known as Attwenger will be performing at select locations throughout the United States. The music of Attwenger, who are sometimes referred to as the anti-folk music duo, is an unusual combination of Austrian Folk music and electronic music with lyrics sung (and rapped) in a rural Austrian dialect. The name Attwenger comes from an old four-lined stanza, that was played in regional broadcast and later appropriated by Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | #Occupy for All Species: Ecosystem Before Economics


As the Occupy movement continues to grow and evolve, how and where do animal rights and other dark green issues fit into the now infamous 99%? Join New York City's own Mickey Z. - subversive author of 11 books - for an urgent and inspirational call-to-arms, re: OWS, activism, speciesism, ecocide, veganism, holistic justice, the 2012 election, and so much more - followed by Q&A/discussion. If you've never been to a Mickey Z. event, check your expectations at the door and prepare to be #Occupied.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 30-Year Retrospective: Every Exit Is an Entrance


Every Exit Is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art explores the space's rich history, and will be its final exhibition. The retrospective will feature extensive documentation from Exit Art’s archives, including posters, promotional graphics, photographs, and elements of the innovative in-house exhibition designs employed in past exhibitions, as well as the work of a selection of artists championed over the years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Screening | Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season Six Sneak Preview


In partnership with Art21, the MFA Fine Arts Department at SVA presents a sneak preview of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only primetime national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the four-part series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today’s most thought-provoking artists. The series is being screened over four consecutive Fridays in advance of the April 13 premiere on PBS. Episode 2: Boundaries presents artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure. David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, former faculty member Lynda Benglis (BFA Fine Arts Department) and Tabaimo are featured.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Guitar, Bass and Piano Faculty Recital


This concert features: Sasha Papernik, piano, Justin Poindexter, guitar, Kyle Saulnier, bass, with other special guests, performing music by Papernik.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name and A Bag O’ Chips Comedy/Variety Show


Now in its 12th year, the show will also feature the funky sounds of "No Name" house band The Summer Replacements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Performance Art: Collective/Performative


An exhibition and event series focusing on performance practices that require the participation of an audience. The exhibition will include new works by commissioned artists and organizations that will utilize the space during gallery hours for a public project, as well as an "artists’ history" of performance told by seminal performance artists who have exhibited at Exit Art. A research exhibition that explores the history of collective practices, the exhibition also investigates the importance of the viewer/audience in achieving the work’s goals and the role that documentation and new technologies play in the formation of collective strategies. Participating Artists and Organizations: Kabir Carter, Pablo Helguera, Anna Lundh, Jeanine Oleson, The Canal Series, Andy Horowitz / Culturebot, Grace Exhibition Space, Not an Alternative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Out of Orbit by Jennifer Maisel


Part of First Light 2012, which has led a pioneering nationwide effort to commission, develop and present hundreds of new plays that challenge and broaden the view of science in the popular imagination.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Pulitzer winner Natasha Tretheway reads from her book Thrall


Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey’s fourth collection of poetry is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2012. Also reading is Punjab poet and translator Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma, author of many books including Hunger of Our Huddled Huts and Other Poems.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Conference | Removing the Bars: TAKE ACTION 2012 - Friday Night Kickoff Event featuring Angela Davis


This event will serve as the kickoff for the Removing the Bars: TAKE ACTION 2012 - A Conference on Criminal Justice, and it features a presentation from Angela Davis, an American black activist, philosopher, feminist scholar and author. Prisoner rights has been one of Angela Davis's major commitments, and she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. A spoken word performance and closing ceremony depicting the varieties of ways people have been impacted by the criminal justice system will follow the presentation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Party | Tattoo Shop and Gallery Opening


The event will feature live DJ sets by renowned NYC based DJs Taimur Agha (Blkmarket Membership New York), Shadi Megallaa (Leftroom/ Igloo), K1W1 (BasicMatter), and multimedia projections by VJ and visual artist Shantel Martin. In addition, Sailor Jerry Rum will be present at the event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Composers' Orchestra


David Gilbert, Conductor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Susanne Rostock's Sing Your Sing (2011)


With remarkable intimacy, visual style, and musical panache Sing Your Song, surveys the inspiring life of singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte's groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | Symphonic Works by Tchaikovsky, Monteverdi and Beethoven


Acclaimed New York orchestra SYMPHO partners with the award-winning Roosevelt High School String Orchestra in a combined concert. Members of the edgy SYMPHO will sit side by side in a friendship concert with the talented Seattle orchestra to present music by Tchaikovsky, Grainger, Warlock, Monteverdi, and the epic Beethoven Symphony No. 7. As with any SYMPHO concert – the music is close up, personal and gives you an intimate view of the workings of an orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Juilliard415 Ensemble performs works by Bach, Handel and Corelli


Program: J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041 Handel Silete Venti Corelli Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 60, No. 4 J.S. Bach Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243 Vocal soloists from Juilliard’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts featured in Bach’s Magnificat include: Julia Bullock, soprano; Heather Engebretson, soprano; Rachael Wilson, mezzo-soprano; Spencer Lang, tenor; and Davone Tines, bass-baritone.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Musical Interactivity: From Boulez to the Next Generation


A free concert event presented by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, composer, multimedia artist and visiting professor. Pieces by Boulez, Baboni-Schilingi, Brook, DiCastri, Diels, Goutfreind, Jacobs, Krueger, Sandred, Trapani, Tutschku, Pitsiokos, Oliver, Vincenot, Young (11 world premieres, 4 classics). Performed by the Ensemble de Musique Interactive (France).
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recital - Catherine Cantrell, oboe


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Sun Boon Jeong, violin


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Theatrix! Festival of 10-Minute Plays


A festival of original 10-minute plays, written, performed, and directed by students from the Program in Educational Theatre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Viva and Her Power Trio, a Rock & Roll Burlesque Band


Representing a rare breed of rock purists for whom the guitar is as much Excaliber as instrument, Viva DeConcini is a fierce shredding machine. The musical glue behind the popular New York rock & roll burlesque shows—recently featured on CBS News—and Taylor Mac’s latest downtown theater creation, Viva comes with her Power Trio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
No cover

Performance | Never Have (I)mprov Ever Comedy Show


They collect the best and bawdiest improvisors around and play the classic drinkin party game. Once they’ve collected enough stories of life experiences they stumble around on stage and do the make em ups based on the truths that were revealed. It’s a show you won’t for get and they won’t remember. Cheers!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 pm
$5

Performance | Comedy: Tickles / The Grrr


The Grrr, formed in March 2011, as part of Chicago’s Playground Theatre Incubator program has crossed many rivers and streams to bring their brand of ALL HANDS ON DECK comedy to you, the humans. From a suggestion gleaned from a vocal audience member, The Grrr, improvises a full show, stacked with realistic source scenes, allowing for the bizarre to weave in. Starting the show with what we call our “Angry Opening,” intense word flames dig deep into our suggestion, effortlessly causing a laser focused piece. The team creates wonky characters, with even stranger names, from Rubicorn the child with the weird invisible friend, to the ever-present “Martha” character, who just can’t seem to get her glasses on her face. Throwing around phrases like “whirlwind” and “high-energy,” you know this is an improv show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:59 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Wando / Giant


Wando is a two-man improv team made up of Jordan Hirsch and Phil Wolff. They formed in late 2010 and are coached by The Magnet Theater’s Associate Artistic Director Rick Andrews. Wando creates an intricate world by exploring multiple-character relationships that invariably evolve as their story lines cross. Jordan and Phil focus on finding the humor that comes from playing believable characters with real emotional connections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:59 pm
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