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58 free events take place on Thursday, March 28 in New York City.
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58 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 28, 2013

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Discussion | State of the Planet 2013: Water Security


This event evaluates our current state and looks to the future for solutions. They will be discussing the future of water security on a global scale.
   
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9:00 am
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Bass Master Class


With Chris Hanulik.
   
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11:00 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. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   
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11:00 am
$6

Film | Hugh Hudson's Oscar-Winning Chariots of Fire (1981): In the Running


Starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleston, Ian Holm. The true story about the 1924 Paris Olympics. Winning is everything to two British runners, but their psychological and emotional reasons compelling them to win are totally divergent. 124 min.
   
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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., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   
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11:15 am
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Lecture | On Human Bondage in Ancient Egypt


Around 1500 BCE, the subjects of this lecture first appear in the tombs of Egyptian nobles. Just a half-century before, the Egyptian Delta had been dominated by rulers from the north, but the Egyptians had since conquered their conquerors and exerted sway as far as the Euphrates River. The sudden appearance, activities, and gradual disappearance of a specific subset of people—who speaker Ellen Morris argues were prisoners-of-war captured from Egypt’s most exotic and formidable contemporary foe—reveal much about the effects of imperialism on Egypt’s economy and sense of self.
   
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom” Tour


Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   
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12:30 pm
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Master Class | Clarinet Master Class


With Andrew Marriner.
   
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1:00 pm
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Master Class | Horn Master Class


With Andrew Bain.
   
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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!
   
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1:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Ivy Style Unbuttoned: Italian Menswear on Rodeo Drive, 1976-1986


Unlike the subtle sophistication of NYC and London, Rodeo Drive was blatantly extravagant. Turning its back to the traditional collegiate world of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, Beverly Hills successfully manipulated Ivy style with Italian aesthetics to suit the celebrated lifestyle of Rodeo Drive. Hollywood celebrities wanted Ivy styling with a twist provided by Italian designers who prized disinvoltura: translated as self-confidence, easy elegance and nonchalant attitude. Stars with Ivy League roots included Jack Lemmon, Wayne Rogers, James Whitmore, and Tommy Lee Jones. Celebrities needed to be perceived as dazzling while not forfeiting their treasured and secure ivy style. The synergy of design influences traversed the Atlantic Ocean where the trend in Italy was promoted as the "Hard Look" inspired by 1950s collegiate dress. This illustrated presentation will examine the Italian interpretation of American Ivy League as it appeared in fashionable retail shops of Beverly Hills, making Rodeo Drive a significant hub for traditional menswear with an Italian twist. Diane Maglio is the speaker.
   
1:15 pm
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City Walk | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   
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2:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Returning Souls Film Screening and Musical Performance


In the most famous ancestral house of Taiwan's matrilineal Amis tribe, carved pillars tell the community's most cherished legends. Some forty years ago, a strong typhoon toppled the house, after which the pillars were moved to the Institute of Ethnology Museum. Recently, young villagers, with assistance from female shamans, challenged tribal members and village representatives to communicate with the ancestors residing in the pillars. They eventually brought those souls back--rather than the pillars themselves--and began reconstructing the house. The documentary depicts this intimate family story within a politically charged historical framework. In an environment highly influenced by western religions, national land policy, and local politics, the dream of the young for cultural revitalization speaks to people around the globe who work to connect past and present, old and new. Featuring a performance by Joseph Lin, First Violinist, Julliard String Quarter.
   
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4:00 pm
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Other | Chess & Games Club


An introductory chess group which welcomes new players. Other strategy games also considered.
   
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time


A roundtable with Carolyn Dinshaw, and Emanuela Bianchi, Carla Freccero, Amy Hollywood, & José Muñoz. How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself.
   
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Daido Moriyama / A-Chan


2 photography shows.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Yoga


Join on Thursday evenings for 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+.
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Billy Childish's paintings that change the universe like digging in the gutter with a broken lolly stick


From the artist: "As a 2 year old kid i sat on the pavement outside my parents house with my feet in the gutter digging with a broken lollypop stick. I liked gouging and lifting the dirt, it was soothing."
   
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett


A detective novel set in Prohibition-era New York City, featuring Nick Charles, and his clever young wife, Nora. Charles is drawn, mostly against his will, into investigating a murder involving a grotesque family, the Wynants.
   
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Flamenco: The Dance, the Music, the Song


Noted flamencologist Sir Brook Zern, who was knighted by the King of Spain for his promotion of Spanish culture, will join K. Meira Goldberg and Nina Bennahum in conversation.
   
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Home(Town) Security


A lecture by Majora Carter, an internationally renowned urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award-winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation & successful implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training & placement systems.
   
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6:00 pm
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Festival | Indonesia through Different Lenses: An Indonesian Cultural Night 2013


Witness a glimpse of Indonesia's diverse and vibrant culture. The Indonesian Cultural Night will take you into a journey of the equatorial emerald. The event will be showcasing Indonesia's traditional dances, traditional food, a gamelan performance, presentation of the variety of traditional clothing. They will also be handing out souvenirs for the first 200 visitors.
   
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Len Wiseman's Total Recall (2012): Philip K. Dick's Story


Starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel. In the future, a factory worker goes to a company called Rekall to have a fantasy memory implanted. When things go wrong and real suppressed memories are triggered, he is left wondering what is real and what isn't. 118 min.
   
6:00 pm
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Concert | Liederabend Recital


Pianists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform vocal repertoire with singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts.
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: H. Hugh Miller's Landscape of Light and Color


Miller’s international roots have reached across more than 40 countries through lifelong traveling and photography. Among his journeys with camera in hand were ventures to the USSR and Ivory Coast in the 1970s, to China and Australia in the 1990s, and to Latin America and Antarctica in the years in between.
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photos: Daido Moriyama's Now and Now


An exhibition of new and classic photographs by Japan’s most important photographer, Daido Moriyama. This is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Moriyama’s work ever mounted in an American art gallery.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Speak with the Poise, Passion and Persuasive Power of a Broadway Actor


Maria Guida shares techniques that you can put into practice immediately to enhance your confidence and persuade more effectively.
   
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Using Bank Regulation to Further Human Rights: The Case of Peru


Speaker: Daniel Schydlowsky was appointed Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators of Peru (SBS) in August 2011. From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Schydlowsky served in the administration of President Alejandro Toledo as Presidential Counselor on Economic and Financial affairs (2001-2002), as President of Perus Development Finance Corporation (COFIDE) (2002-2006), as member of the board of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) (2002-2006) as well as of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF).
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Video Art by Eli Ping


The works measure and delineate space and time - in the gallery and external to it. The delineations cause rupture and separation. They establish the borders between inside and out, past, present, and future. They represent the sequential nature of experience and the manner in which form locks disparate events into necessary relationships.
   
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, 7-9 November 1941


A talk by Jeffrey Burds, Northeastern University. This paper is a reconstruction of the events surrounding the German aktion that led to the massacre of some 23,500 Jewish men, women, and children at three sites in Sosenki Forest, outside Rovno, in Volhynia, Ukraine, on 7-9 November 1941. Often remembered as the second Babi Yar, the massacre of Jews in Rovno was one of dozens of similar German-sponsored large-scale anti-Jewish killing operations perpetrated in Soviet zones that marked the first autumn and winter of World War II in the East.
   
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | Operation Tailspin: The Reorientation of U.S. Intelligence from German to Soviet Targets, September 1944-July 1945


A talk by Jeffrey Burds, Northeastern University. Based on more than a decade of archival research in security collections of the United States, Russia, Ukraine, the UK, and Germany, this paper presents a newly emerging revision of the basic story: After Stalingrad, German collaborationist governments in southeastern and central Europe feared that the Soviets would "Balticize" them--enter with the Red Army, and then openly annex them. So they sent clandestine contacts to London and Washington to set up joint operations with the secret services of both countries.
   
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6:15 pm
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Author Reading | Andrea Grill discusses her book Liebesmaschine N.Y.C.


A presentation of Austrian author Andrea Grill’s new book followed by a discussion. Joining the author in discussion will be Ross Benjamin and Martin Rauchbauer (Deutsches Haus at NYU) who will moderate the event. Light refreshments will be served.
   
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Curator-Led Tour of After the Museum: The Home Front 2013


Discover the newly opened exhibition with curator Jake Yuzna as your guide. Illuminating the radical approach to this unique exhibition, Yuzna will reveal the diverse approaches of the design community presented in the exhibition that reconceive the form and role of an art and design museum in the 21st century.
   
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Henry R. Schlesinger discusses his book Spy Sites of New York City


This illustrated talk covers the two centuries that New York City has been a center of international espionage and is about The City's clandestine history. The stories are of covert operatives who turned the tide of wars and shaped the history of nations. Their secret world, covering virtually every major espionage case that involved New York from the Revolutionary War on, is explored.
   
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Museum Docent Tour


The docent-led tours meet in the lobby.
   
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6:30 pm
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Forum | (Re)Producing Value: Incommensurable Exchange


In the midst of a global economic crisis, alternative economic narratives gain attention. Can grassroots exchange systems (re)produce values of equity, sustainability, and democracy? What is the role of sustainability in discussions about economic possibilities? The barter network Ourgoods.org presents a series of conversations between economic anthropologists and cultural producers. Join the six free debates about the history and future of sharing, barter, and exchange. Speakers include: Silvia Federici, David Graeber, Mary-Beth Raddon, Jason Pine, and Stephen Gudeman in dialog with organizers of the Brooklyn Time Bank, RISE, Black Women's Blueprint, Bit Coin, and OurGoods.
   
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Finks by Joe Gilford, a Play about the 1950s Red Scare


Do you know who your friends are? When the moment came to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, some artists chose to name names, others chose to risk their careers rather than betray their friends. Finks is the real life story of young entertainers on the brink of success, who find themselves playing roles they never dreamed they’d have to play. Featuring Michael Cullen, Ned Eisenberg, Leo Ash Evens, Jason Liebman, Ian Lowe, Thomas Lyons, Aaron Serotsky & Miriam Silverman.
   
7:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Alison Klayman's Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry (2012)


A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government. 91 min. A Q&A session will follow with film director, Alison Klayman.
   
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jay Neugeboren reads from his book The American Sun and Wind Moving Picture Company


Jay Neugeboren, award-winning author of over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, reads from and talks about his new book, a collection of haunting tales set in the silent film era.
   
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Meet the Musicians: Ra Ra Riot


Ra Ra Riot met while attending school in Syracuse, New York, and quickly graduated from basement rehearsals and student dance parties to blog buzz and acclaim for their debut, "The Rhumb Line." Catch band members in conversation with Jeff Regan of SiriusXM’s "Alt Nation" as they talk about the inspiration behind their new release, "Beta Love"—a collection of giddy pop songs and heady lyrics. Then stick around while they answer a few questions and give a short performance.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Michael Findlay reads from his book The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty


New York Foundation for the Arts fellow Michael Findlay unveils all the factors that determine how works of art are priced and valued in his new book, copies of which he will sign after the event.
   
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographer Steven B. Smith discusses his career


Steven B. Smith’s photography chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia. He was awarded the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and his book, The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West, was published by Duke University Press in 2005. Smith has received Guggenheim and Aaron Siskind Fellowships and his work can be found in many public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
   
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Pulitzer-winning poet Paul Muldoon reads from his book The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics


Pulitzer Prize winner and "New Yorker" poetry editor Paul Muldoon reads from his new book.
   
7:00 pm
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Reading | T.G.I.S. (Thank God it’s Spring)


Two Dollar Radio authors Barbara Browning, Scott McClanahan, Karolina Waclawiak, and D Foy celebrate the death of winter.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Scott H. Biram, a One-Man Band


Scott H. Biram is a one-man band. But don’t let that fool you. For more than a decade, Scott H Biram has fearlessly preached his gospel of blues, punk, country, metaland psychobilly to his congregation of metalheads, barflies, college professors and regular dudes via a pulpit that is just a stack of amps, a ‘59 hollowbody Gibson and a stomp board.
   
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Student Flute Recital


Program: BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 STRAUSS Duett-Concertino, TrV 293 TAKEMITSU Eucalypts I BARBER Capricorn Concerto, op. 21 FRANCAIX Quadruple Concerto Chris James, Flute; joined by students and friends.
   
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class


With Susan Wadsworth.
   
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7:45 pm
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Concert | AXIOM Ensemble performs works by Carter and others


Susanna Mälkki conducts AXIOM and presents a program in collaboration with the Sibelius Academy, which will be showcased at the Helsinki Festival next summer, featuring works by Sean Shepherd, Veli-Matti Puumala, Elliott Carter, Jukka Tiensuu, and Anthony Cheung. AXIOM's critically praised performances of "classic" 20th century works are a highlight of the season.
   
8:00 pm
Free tickets required

Concert | Beyond the Machine 13.1, a Festival of Electro-Acoustic and Intermedia Art


The Center for Innovation in the Arts presents a festival of electro-acoustic and intermedia art, featuring collaborations between all three of the school's disciplines: Dance, Drama, and Music.
   
8:00 pm
Free tickets required

Lecture | Dancer with the Dark: Oskar Schlemmer's Spaceless Play


A talk by Noam Elcott, Professor of Art History.
   
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8:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Dialogue with Three Chords


Dialogue with Three Chords (D3C) proudly kicks off it's third season of programming. D3C is a theatre collective that produces staged readings of fresh material, often written the same month it is performed, and actors that are talented & dedicated enough to be on their feet, scripts in hand after only one rehearsal.
   
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8:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Iyom by Lou-Lou Igbokwe


Zaki, the only child of ambitious Nigerian immigrants, is constantly learning things the hard way. When her mysterious grandmother moves in, things take a turn for the magical. But even her new found power doesn’t help Zaki deal with the reality of trauma, tradition, and loss.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


With Sara Daneshpour.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Tenor Recital


Featuring Kilho Bang.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


With Daniel Rufolo.
   
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8:30 pm
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Concert | Student Soprano Recital


With Yang Liu.
   
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9:00 pm
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