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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 29, 2012?

85 free events take place on Thursday, March 29 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 29 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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85 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 29, 2012

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Talk | Learn About the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   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

Conference | Varieties of Biography with novelist E. L. Doctorow and 15 eminent biographers


An all-day conference will feature novelist E. L. Doctorow and 15 eminent biographers, including Sylvia Nasar, Debby Applegate, Brad Gooch, and John Matteson, as well graphic artists such as underground comics innovator Kim Deitch. Lectures and panel discussions will cover topics ranging from ancient biography to the uses of biography in contemporary fiction. The full roster of eminent biographers also includes Gary Giddins, Neil Baldwin, David Evanier, Margo Jefferson, James Kaplan, Nancy Milford, James Miller, James Romm, Amanda Vaill, Katharina Volk, and Geoffrey Wolff, and graphic artists Lauren Redniss, Miriam Katin, Ariel Schrag, and Matt Madden.
   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., 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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Workshop | Knitting and Crochet Group


Bring your current project, your questions, your needles and your yarn to the Knitters' Table every Tuesday. Beginners and experienced knitters are welcome - crochet, too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Lecture | Post-Chernobyl: Catastrophism in Contemporary Ukrainian Culture


A lecture by Tamara Hundorova, a Doctor of Philological Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; she is the Head of the Department of Theory of Literature in the Academy’s Institute of Literature. She is the author of 8 books and many articles on literary modernism, postmodernism, Ukrainian literature, and feminism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Talk | Preventing Family Homelessness: Evaluation of New York City's HomeBase Program


Peter Messeri, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, and Brendan Andrew O'Flaherty, Professor of Economics, will present this work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join a free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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
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Park Walk | “Views from the Past” Tour


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   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

Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined


Life is not lived in black and white: reality may have the tinge of dreams and dreams an air of reality. 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?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Symposium | Dressing in a Dangerous World: Fashion & Politics Workshop


This workshop continues conversations begun in Spring 2011 at the annual conference of the International Studies Association in Montreal, instigated by Dr Andreas Behnke, under the title of ‘Being Fab in Dangerous World: Gendered Bodies and the International Fashion World.’ The intention of bringing some of the contributors of that event is to consider further the wider political contexts and agendas under which fashion impacts and interacts with social, material and corporeal functions in the context of geopolitics and biopolitics in the 21st century. The workshop, which is open to those with varied and diverse interests in fashion, and politics, will also serve as a means of planning for a larger conference.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | From Venice to Vienna: New Music from the Seventeenth Century


PROGRAM: Giovanni Battista Fontana Sonata seconda from Sonate… per il violino o simile altro istromento Giovanni Bassano Diminutions on Frais et Gailliard Dario Castello Sonata prima from Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno, Libro II Fontana Sonata terza Marco Uccellini Sonata seconda, La Luciminia contenta from Sonate, correnti et arie, Op.4 Giovanni Pandolfi Mealli Sonata quarta from Sonate a Violino solo, Op.3 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Sonata terza in G minor from Sonatae unarum fidium With: Robert Mealy, concertmaster, Church Baroque Orchestra & Avi Stein, harpsichord and organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Scrabble Mania


All levels of play welcome. Please bring with you...your Scrabble set (be sure it has all 100 tiles!), a Scrabble dictionary and, of course, a love of the game!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Planning for Retirement and College: IRAs, 401(k)s,529s & More


Where will the money come from! This class describes a variety of tax advantaged accounts that individuals can set up to help them acquire the nest egg necessary for retirement and/or college bound children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Conference | Expanding and Shrinking Areas of Liberty: Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and Syria


Through a series of informal conversations between the speakers and discussants, this conference will explore factors that have led to greater, or more restricted, liberties in countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, especially since the Arab Spring. The speakers will focus on the roles of religious actors, international bodies like the UN and civil society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Fred Zinneman's A Man for All Seasons (1966), Winner of 6 Oscars


With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller and Robert Shaw. The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. 120 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Quiltmaking Workshop


Learn or hone your quiltmaking skills in this four-session workshop. All materials are provided and participants will be guided step-by-step through the process by an experienced instructor. The resulting quilts will be put on display in the library.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Researching with E-Resources: Catalogs


Learn how to use the library Online Catalog and WorldCat, an online catalog of materials held in libraries worldwide. The class focuses on the specific needs of the participants, so bring your current research projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Flute Master Class


Featuring Tim Day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join a free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Intro to WordPress


What do the NY Times, Jay-Z and Fail Blog all have in common? They all use WordPress. WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform on the web today. It is free, open source and easy to use. Any skill level from experienced to novice can get a blog up and running in minutes. But, WordPress can do much more then just help you publish a blog.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Beaded Moccasin-Making Demonstration


Beaded moccasin-making demonstration with Cody Harjo. Visitors are invited to interact with Cody Harjo by observing, listening and asking questions. Please note: This is not a workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | College Senior Piano Recital


Featuring Leah Claiborne.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Family Concert


Presented by the Music Performance Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | The Origins of Deconstruction: A New History


Historian Edward Baring (Drew University) discusses his new book, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 in conversation with Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania), Taylor Carman, Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan), and Gayatri Spivak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | American Pietàs: Visions of Race, Death and the Maternal


In a lecture based on her recently published book, Ruby C. Tapia will discuss how a range of 21st century visual representations of death conjoined to the maternal reflect and produce racialized citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing of race, death and the maternal in Camera Lucida, American Pietàs contends that the contradictory and generative essence of the photograph is both as a signifier of death and a guarantor of resurrection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Nana Olivas / Lucy Hodgson


In All Alone, the emotional weight found in Nana Olivas' work is best described by the various materials used by the artist. Paint, oil, blood, varnish and lacquer are used to speak of the nuanced experience of shared histories. In the three-part series "Verlangen," splatters of blood can be spied within the endless black lacquer, simultaneously reflecting the viewer. Olivas, who paints on unprimed canvas can be seen as a successor of Antoni Tapies, who was once described as "a painter who was to create mysteries in matter itself." Lucy Hodgson's Sucking It Up and Blowing It Out: The Consequences of Greed features new sculpture by the artist that combines and critique the effect of humans on the environment. Using a mix of steel piping, raw pine, wire mesh and rusted steel, Hodgson manipulates these materials until they become displaced characters in a post-apocalyptic era.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 3 Artists: Lauren Luloff / Cassie Raihl / William Santen


An exhibition featuring three emerging New York-based artists. The paintings, sculptures and films in this show all share an experimental attitude veering into the enigmatic, while still being firmly rooted in physical materiality. These artists are also connected by a tendency to repurpose or refine common materials, effecting a change in perception of medium, meaning and the material itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | 3 Films on the Life of the Huichol People


Three films engage us in the life of the Wixaritari (or Huichol), a people in the southern part of the desert and mountain environment that ranges from the American Southwest into western Mexico: Flowers of the Desert The Drum Celebration In Defense of Wirikuta and the Sierra de Catorce Discussion follows with John Smith of Cultural Survival and director Jose Alvarez.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Me and Everyone That Is with Me, an Immersive Installation


In January 2012, artists Alex Casso, Graham Hamilton, and Dan Herschlein, working under the name After School Special, began collaborating with the Education Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art on several in-depth classes for students aged 6-14 from the Regent Family Residence. Employing Fluxus-inspired prompts, the artists and children used the classroom and the Whitney’s galleries to investigate the overlap of play and performance. During workshops, the artists gathered audio and video footage and collected students’ drawings and collages. From March 22 – April 11, the artists will translate their findings in the form of an immersive installation. Statements, sketches and actions generated through collaborations with the children will become sets for improvised and prescribed actions. Using multiple live video feeds and simultaneous projections, visitors will take on the role of performer as their presence is enmeshed within these sets and replayed throughout the space. Placing the viewer in these mirrored stages, the artists will replicate the performative play generated by the children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Adult Yoga


Open-level yoga with a certified instructor! Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Czech Liederabend: A Celebration of the Yveta Synek Graff Czech Opera Collection


A special Liederabend featuring one of the newest collections in the Lila Acheson Wallace Library. Works by Dvorák, Janácek, Haas, Bendl, Martinu, Kapralová, and Smetana. Pianists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform vocal repertoire with singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Daniel Beliavsky's Sonata (1957)


Documentary about the distinguished American composer Donald Harris and his opus 1, the Sonata for Piano, followed by Q&A with Harris and the filmmaker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | In the Urban Crisis


A lecture series exploring urban issues around the world. This lecture welcomes Madrid‐based urban activist Ana Méndez de Andés.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Installation: Eugene Lemay's Navigator


An installation of large-scale, atmospheric tableaus composed of layers of digitally altered Hebrew text. Nearly black at first glance, the tapestry of indiscernible marks conjures notions of remembrance as ethereal terrains and undulating mountains reveal themselves in fictional nightscapes. Measuring up to 20 feet in length, the works are adhered directly onto the gallery walls, enveloping the viewer's entire field of vision and inviting an experience of the sublime.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Intro to WordPress


What do the NY Times, Jay-Z and Fail Blog all have in common? They all use WordPress. WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform on the web today. It is free, open source and easy to use. Any skill level from experienced to novice can get a blog up and running in minutes. But, WordPress can do much more then just help you publish a blog.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Locke, Substance, and the Embarrassment of an Aristotelian Idea


With speaker Justin Broackes. Locke makes rather a mess of the Aristotelian idea of a substance. Having mischaracterized it, he first attempts to trash it. Discovering later that he cannot do without it, he ends up reaffirming and attempting to rehabilitate it, but after giving it such a battering, it's hardly surprising that his successors thought it was a tissue of confusion fit only to be abandoned or mocked.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Lesson | Mary’s Fancy Ball


Experience some of the popular dances that young Mary Shelley may have danced in the ballrooms of 19th century England: lively quadrilles, charming country dances, the whirling waltz, and more. No prior dance experience is necessary; wear comfortable flat or low-heeled shoes. Presented by The New York Historical Dance Company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Mixed-Media Works by Henning Bohl


Shown: "Abysmal," 2012, fabric on stretcher, scotch donut tape dispenser; diptych: 39.3 x 40.1” / 100 x 102cm and 57 x 59” / 145 x 150cm (detail)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Occupy the Media: Teach-In with Martin Lucas


How do we understand the OWS movement through its media? How does the "alternative public sphere" of OWS differ from the media of other global movements? How does a movement that chooses to rethink representative democracy approach representational strategies and tactics? Martin Lucas, Professor of Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College and former Paper Tiger Television Collective member, invites you to bring your practice to and share at this interactive teach-in.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Rudy Shepherd's Psychic Death


From the artist: "This body of work is part of an exploration into the nature of evil that includes both a series of sculptures and portrait paintings. The paintings are of black men who have been accused of violent crimes. Some have been proven guilty by a court of law and others have simply been accused by the court of public opinion." Shown: "Ted Kaczynski, Mathematician Who Killed 9 and Wounded 23 in a Campaign of Mail Bombings," 2008, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photography: Natalie Czech's I have nothing to say. Only to show.


The first solo exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist Natalie Czech. Czech's photography explores the visual possibilities of poetry, deepening the dialogue between the written word and visual art. I have nothing to say. Only to show. includes two series by the artist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photos: Moyra Davey's Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. Ill-humor.


An unyielding reflection on the vicissitudes of photography, Davey’s exhibition pairs her recent film Les Goddesses with two new sets of photographs and a series of black-and-white portraits shot in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Sports & Ethnicity: Jewish and Palestinian Soccer Teams in Argentina and Chile


Speaker Raanan Rein examines the history of two soccer clubs—Club Atlético Atlanta, a team in Buenos Aires identified with the local Jewish population, and Club Deportivo Palestino in Santiago, Chile—to demonstrate how belonging to the clubs serves both to sustain distinct ethnic identities and to facilitate integration into the local society. Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and director of the Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University, Rein has authored or edited more than twenty books, among them Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora, and a forthcoming volume on Arabs and Jews in the Americas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Works on Paper: Christine Mottau's Imaginary Floreo


The artist will be in attendance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: The Influence of Russia in Its “Near Abroad”


A talk by Mitchell Orenstein (Professor of European Studies, Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University), who will present a paper of the same title co-authored by David R. Cameron (Professor of Political Science, Yale University).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Screening | First Run Festival


Films by students. Showtimes at 6:30pm and 8:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | How to Be Modern with Scientific Illustration: Fritz Kahn, Popular Medicine and the Visual Rhetoric of Modernity, 1916-1960


Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, was one of the first proponents of modernist scientific illustrations, which were conceptual, metaphorical and self-consciously modern in their aesthetics. Historian Michael Sappol will situate Kahn’s illustrations and larger agenda within Weimar cultural politics, analyze key images and genres and discuss the global diffusion of modernist conceptual scientific illustration. Sappol is a curator and historian at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2002), Dream Anatomy (National Institutes of Health, 2006) and co-editor of A Cultural History of the Body in the Age of Empire, 1800-1920 (Berg Publishers, 2010).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Karen Karbo speaks on her book How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living


In this illustrated talk, the author delves into the long, extraordinary life of the renowned American painter, exploring a range of universal themes from how to discover and nurture your individuality, to what it means to be in a committed relationship while maintaining your independence; from finding your own style, to developing the ability to take risks. Her non-traditional biography is built around an aspect of living that concerns women today of all ages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: Rural Women, Memory, and China's Collective Past


What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? This year’s Women’s History Month lecturer, Gail Hershatter, will explore changes in the lives of women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Centering on the story of Zhang Chaofeng, a former child daughter-in-law, the talk explores the question of whether women had a revolution, examining the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation. Gail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin, 1900- 1949, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (with Emily Honig), Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century, and The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past. She is a past President of the Association for Asian Studies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | The Magic of Using Your iPhone as Your Camera


With Dan Burkholder.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | This Is Your Brian on Politics: Why People Believe What They Want to Believe, and Deny Science Selectively


With Jonathan Moreno and Jonathan Haidt, moderated by S. Matthew Liao. Jonathan Moreno is David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America (BLP, 2012) and Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century (BLP pap. ed., 2012). Jonathan Haidt is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He’s the author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon, 2012) and Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books, 2006). S. Matthew Liao is Director of the Bioethics Program, Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Performance | Women Writers of the Diaspora: Pamela Jackson


Writer, actress, and performance artist Pamela Jackson presents her one-woman show, My Mother’s G.E.M.S., followed by an open dialogue with the audience. This coming-of-age tale shows the tremendous strength it takes to overcome one’s past..
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | A Kid Like Jake, a New Play by Daniel Pearle


On the eve of the admissions cycle for Manhattan's most elite private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake - a precocious four year-old who happens to prefer Cinderella to GI Joe. But as the process continues, Jake's behavior becomes erratic and perplexing, and other adults in his life start to wonder whether his penchant for dress-up might be cause for concern. The story of a husband and wife struggling to do right by their son, A Kid Like Jake is a study of intimacy and parenthood and the fantasies that accompany both.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artists discuss the exhibition Amazing Grace


Join the artists of Amazing Grace as they discuss the technical, cultural and spiritual elements they fused together to tell their stories. Amazing Grace is an exhibition of paintings, graphics, sculpture, photography and mixed media art by artists of African descent located in the New York metro area. Meet the artists at a closing reception; light refreshments served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Featuring Yun Kyung Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ellen Ullman reads from her book By Blood


With ferocious intelligence and an enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman weaves a dark and brilliant, intensely personal novel that feels as big and timeless as it is sharp and timely. It is an ambitious work that establishes her as a major writer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Glyn Maxwell reads from his book One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems


British author Glyn Maxwell reads and discusses poems from his new book. His reading will be followed by a conversation with writer Belinda McKeon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Kevin Hatch reads from his book Looking for Bruce Conner


In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making found-footage films, hallucinatory ink-blot graphics, enigmatic collages, or assemblages from castoffs, Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | MSNBC's Rachel Maddow signs copies of her book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power


Political commentator and MSNBC host Maddow discusses her new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Fast Company by Carla Ching


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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Jazz | Cafe Jazz


Presented by the Jazz Arts Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Eva Ayllon, “the Tina Turner of Peru”


Eva Ayllon has been committed to expanding musical boundaries and broadening awareness of Afro-Peruvian culture for decades. Dubbed “The Tina Turner of Peru” by the Los Angeles Times, Ayllon has performed to sold-out houses across the globe and produced more than 20 records. Her latest release, Eva Ayllon Celebra 40 Años Cantandole Al Peru, is a compilation of greatest hits that revisits the musical styles she mastered over four decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Eyesonic: Music and Video


Presented by the Contemporary Performance Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Upperwest Chamber Music 2011-2012, Concert 10


The Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music Series presents College chamber music ensembles in a series performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class with Jerome Lowenthal


From the Program in Piano Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Dance Performance | Annual Spring Dance Concert


Could you be looking at the next Heather Watts or Mikhail Baryshnikov? You may find yourself asking that very question during the Dance Program's annual Spring Concert. This is a chance to see new student choreography under the guidance of our Harkness Choreographers-in-Residence: Laura Peterson and Donna Uchizono.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Beyond the Machine 12.1: Synchoneity -- with Works by John Cage


Program: John Cage: Radio Music for 1-8 Radios (1956); Third Construction for Percussion Quartet (1941); and Winter Music for 1-20 pianos (1957) Nick Didkovsky: Zero Waste; and Base Track, based on multimedia artwork by Teru Kuwayama and adapted by Roderick Hill. Beyond the Machine 12.1 – Synchroneity: A Festival of Electro-Acoustic and Intermedia Art joins musicians from Europe, Asia, and the Mid-East with students in four multimedia performances. The program features works by John Cage in celebration of Cage’s centennial, a work by Nick Didkovsky, plus an adaptation of a work by a journalist/multimedia artist in Afghanistan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Viola Recital


B.Mus. Recital of Dwayne Beach, viola.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | H.G. Adler's Writing and Thought on the Holocaust


Award-winning writer and translator Peter Filkins will reflect on the life and literary work of H. G. Adler, one of the few German-speaking Jewish writers to survive the Nazi death camps. Known for his monumental Theresienstadt 1941–1945, a day-by-day account of his experiences there, Adler also wrote six novels, including Panorama.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Pace University's Annual Repertory Season


The Actors Studio Drama School presents its annual Repertory Season at Pace University in five weeks of theater designed to introduce our graduating students to the professional world and the public in fully professional productions of the work they have created during their three years of study. Here you will witness a weekly series of scenes, one-act plays and full-length plays, some of them written by our playwrights, and all of them directed by our directors and acted by our actors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Recital - Dimitri Dover, Collaborative Piano


   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Recital - Hulda Jonsdottir, Violin


   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The Juilliard Orchestra performs works by Schumann and Beethoven


Program: George Walker’s Lyric for Strings Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 Juilliard’s Principal Conductor James DePreist leads the Juilliard Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Thursday Night Meditation


Ganesh Das leads a therapeutic meditation practice. This healing Satsang is designed and blessed by his gurus and founders of the method, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Through this guided practice open to all levels, one learns to find a comfortable meditative seat, be still and focus the attention on the breath and a mantra. One learns to create space and calmness in the mind and body, amidst the daily chaos of life. This class provides a safe environment for the community to gather and openly discuss spiritual and every day aspects of life through a candid Q & A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Featuring Julie Castor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | Performance: Joanna Rush's Asking for It


Asking for It follows one woman’s hysterical and heartbreaking journey from “Outstanding Catholic Youth of the Year” to the stage of Radio City Music Hall to the cast of A Chorus Line. She experiences repression and redemption, faith and femininity, and finds humor and humility on a journey to create her own life. With song, dance, and deeply felt words, Joanna Rush portrays that woman, along with a colorful cast of characters ranging from uptight clerics to sexy chorines and growing boys. Hilarious, irreverent, and deeply moving, Asking for It leaves audiences—male and female, of all ages—inspired and renewed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Featuring Jiaxin Tian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Comedy Show: Comics Must Wash Hands


Jeff Cerulli and Adam Glyn’s long running east village stand up comedy show is back and some would say better than ever in a new venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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Theater | Guidance, a New Play by Becca Schlossberg


After a violent fight with his father, eighteen year-old Tracey starts an epic drive south to Savannah, determined to lay roots for a new life. But to his surprise, his little sister, Cameran, is also along for the ride. In the lonely landscape of highways and playgrounds, Tracey finds himself torn between the new life that lies ahead and the old life he is trying to flee. In this modern day coming of age story, a young man discovers the limits of freedom as he tests the bonds of love.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Comedy: The Scene


The Scene is a weekly showcase of improvised one act plays. Each week the show features New York’s top improvisers from The PIT, Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Baby Wants Candy, Second City and more. The Scene is produced and hosted by Dan Hodapp and Micah Sherman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | New Team Lunacy Comedy Show


All you need to do is show up. Don’t have an improv group? We’ll put you in one! Have a team then bring them down! Five teams get to play for ten minutes each, and everyone has fun. Work on your skills and meet some great new people. New Team Lunacy, hosted by Erick Hellwig.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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