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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, May 2, 2010

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Tour | Flatiron Neighborhood Tour


A guided tour of the neighborhood.
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10:45 am
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City Walk | Historic Orchard Street Tour


Take a journey down historic Orchard Street and discover the origins of New York's first discount retail more district. The two-hour tour highlights the integral role that the shopping district has played in the history and development of the Lower East Side. less
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


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Festival | 31st Annual Asian-Pacific American Heritage Festival


NARU Korean Contemporary Arts has been selected to perform at this year's Asian-Pacific American Heritage more Festival. The audience is invited to get such a wide variety of amazing acts this year. This year's performers are: NYC Bhangra, NARU KCP ARTS, Alfa, Blip blip bleep, Bollywood Axion Dance Company, Kevin So, Cynthia Lin Music, Magnetic North & Taiyo Na, Soh Daiko, Yosakoi Dance Project. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Other | Open Studio Weekend


Meet 20 visual artists and 9 writers in their studio spaces and see what they’ve been working on since more September 2009! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “Seneca Village”


Seneca Village was Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that more would become Central Park. Tour covers the history of the village, the property owners, and what New York City was like at the time. Tour is approximately one hour. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Lebanese Writer Elias Khoury


Renowned Lebanese author Elias Khoury will be interviewed by Neil Gordon and read selections from his more new novel White Masks. Khoury is an integral part of the Beirut vanguard of modern Arabic literature. His Gate of the Sun was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. His novels, which include Yalo, Little Mountain, City Gates, and The Journey of Little Gandhi, have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, and Hebrew. Khoury, a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU, is also a noted journalist, public intellectual, and outspoken advocate of freedom of expression. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Irish Dance Festival


9th annual celebration of traditional Irish dance and music, featuring performances by stars of the Irish more dance world and NY area dance schools. Join in on the fun with live music, workshops in traditional Irish dance for all skill levels, a singer’s circle, Irish language classes, face-painting, children’s craft table and more! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Slap: A Conversation with Colm Toíbín and Christos Tsiolkas


Christos Tsiolkas, the Greek-Australian author of Loaded and The Jesus Man, has created an international more scene with his Commonwealth Writer’s Prize–winning novel The Slap, published here this month. Join him and groundbreaking Booker Prize–winning Irish novelist Colm Toíbín, whose books include The Blackwater Lightship, The Story of the Night, and most recently, Brooklyn, for a discussion of some of the common themes that connect their work—from sexual identity to literary taboos. less
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Garrett Fischbach, violin


A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of an internationally acclaimed performer more and a distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Piano Students of Hugo Goldenzweig


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by more a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories. less
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1:30 pm
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Concert | Broadway Bach Ensemble performs works by Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven


Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527 and Horn Concerto No. 2 in E‑Flat more Major, K. 417 Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 (&#147;Unfinished&#148;) Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b Guerguan Tsenov, Guest Conductor, and Kolio Plachkov, horn soloist, are from Bulgaria. Both have won numerous international competitions and made frequent appearances with orchestras in the United States and abroad. less
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Columbia University Wind Ensemble


A concert with talent from the Music Performance Program of Columbia University. This orchestra is a more great favorite of the series with its young brass and percussion musicians in a program that ranges from the Renaissance to the present. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | CU Jazz Ensembles


Ensembles directed by Ole Mathisen, Don Sickler and Ben Waltzer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Hell's Kitchen-“Midtown West” Tour


Once the turf of gangsters, now gentrified with international restaurants and Off Broadway Theater. Highlights: more The Actor's Temple, The Actors Studio, The Film Center Building, The Statue of Ralph Kramden, the Piano Factory Building and more. less
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2:00 pm
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Author Reading | Marion Kaplan discusses her book Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945


Sosúa was a colony of German-speaking Jews in the Dominican Republic during the Holocaust. The book more explores the challenges, opportunities and barriers to the settlement of Jewish refugees in the days prior to and during the Holocaust. These middle-class, urban Europeans found themselves in a tropical environment where they had to master a new language, develop new skills and create new lives while worrying about those loved-ones left behind. They created a Jewish community with a synagogue, built a school and a thriving dairy industry working alongside with Dominicans in an environment free of antisemitism. Kaplan is the author of The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany: The Campaigns of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, 1904-1938. She also wrote The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany, which won the American Historical Association Conference Group in Central European History Book Prize for 1991/92 and the National Jewish Book Award. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Stefan Schwietert's Documentary A Tickle in the Heart (1996): Life on the Klezmer Circuit


This film follows three traveling Klezmer musicians as they tour the places of their past, including more Florida, Poland, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It shows the three brothers -- Max, Julie and Willie Epstein -- discussing their past and handling the nuts and bolts of their business: booking dates, haggling over fees, and performing at retirement homes and synagogue functions. 84 min. less
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “A Road Once Traveled”


Holding the Park's northern highlands was key in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 because more armies could see their enemies approach as they sailed down the East River. History buffs will love this tour of the Harlem Meer and its strategic environs. less
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | The Master of Apocalypse


With László Krasznahorkai and Colm Tóibín. Susan Sontag said László Krasznahorkai is “the contemporary more Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville.” W.G. Sebald said of his work, “The universality of Krasznahorkai’s vision rivals that of Gogol’s Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.” Since 1985, renowned director Béla Tarr—the author’s good friend—has made films almost exclusively based on Krasznahorkai’s works. Today he’ll talk with Irish novelist and Booker Prize winner Colm Tóibín (who will publish Krasznahorkai’s work in the U.K. under his own imprint), about truth and darkness, adaptation, and much more. less
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Works for Violin and Paino by Mozart and Schubert


A concert with Ayako Yonetani, violin and Cheryl Tschanz, piano. The duo will be playing works by Mozart, more Ysaye, Schubert and others. less
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Help Wanted: An A Cappella Show by the Art Mob


The Art Mob, an uncommon a cappella chorus of sixteen intrepid accomplices, finally faces reality in more its spring concert, “Help Wanted.” They have perused musty, dusty songbooks and retrieved these timely petitions: “Give to the Cause,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Hard Times,” and “Under the Curse.” The depression-era ditty “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” sounds new again. Hear them out and help out as they romp through chosen temperance, seafaring, Sacred Harp, Irish ballad, radio gospel, scary children’s ditty, and vaudeville songs! The Art Mob is: Brent Frederick (music director), Connie Beckley, Aldo Ceresa, Gaynor Coté, Martin Donach, Therezia Gaal, Cheryl Morrison, Dean Rainey, Dan Rosenbaum, Ruby McNeil, Nancy Moore Simpson, Rita Selby, Jared Stamm, Kirsten Skrinde, Vicki Watson, and Mark Wolff.  less
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Piano and Violin Works by Brahms, Shostakovich and Stravinsky


Program: Johannes Brahms Scherzo in C minor, "Sonatensatz" Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata, Op. 134 Igor more Stravinsky Duo Concertante Erkki-Sven Tuur Conversio Franz Schubert Rondo Brilliant in B minor, D. 895, Op. 70 Violinist Leila Josefowicz has won the hearts of audiences around the world with her honest, fresh approach to the repertoire and her dynamic virtuosity. Josefowicz came to national attention in 1994 when she made her Carnegie Hall debut with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and has since appeared with many of the world's most prestigious orchestras and eminent conductors. less
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Sex and the City, in 17th Century Venice


What was life like for a young, single, lovely, talented, and accomplished woman at the center of high more society in Venice, one of the most hip and cosmopolitan cities of 17th Century Italy? Explore the life of virtuoso singer and composer Barbara Strozzi, considered to be one of the foremost composers of the Italian Baroque. The program includes performances of Strozzi’s compositions, readings from her writings, dramatic narration and the music of her contemporaries, performed in the style of her time, on instruments from the period. With Arlene Travis, soprano. less
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Writer Rawi Hage discusses his work


Award-winning author, photographer, and visual artist Rawi Hage will be interviewed by David Haglund more and discuss his approach to writing and the ways in which his multicultural background has influenced his unique and singular voice. Born in Beirut, Hage lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war before embarking on a path that would lead him through Cyprus, New York, and ultimately Montreal, where he currently resides. His debut novel, De Niro’s Game, was winner of the prestigious 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the McAuslan First Book Prize, and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. less
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3:00 pm
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Concert | String Orchestra of New York City performs works by Shostakovich and Telemann


Program: Telemann Don Quixote Suite Walton Sonata for Strings Shostakovich Chamber Symphony (String more Quartet No.8) This is an outstanding conductor-less ensemble. less
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4:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital: Mark Limacher, composition


   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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City Walk | Walking Tour: Inside the Apple


Michelle & James Nevius lead a walking tour of the area.
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Writers Atiq Rahimi and Lila Azam Zanganeh in Conversation


Atiq Rahimi fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion, eventually receiving political asylum in France; more he has since become a renowned filmmaker and author. The Patience Stone, his fourth book and first in French, rather than Persian, won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize. Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents; she is now fluent in six languages and has written for The New York Times, Le Monde, and La Repubblica. Join these acclaimed émigrés for a conversation about Iran, exile, literature, film, and more. less
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Jung Tsai, violin


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by more a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories. less
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4:30 pm
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Discussion | Lebanese author Alexandre Najjar discusses his work


Najjar discusses his multifaceted, award-winning career and read from some of his works. Born in Lebanon, more Najjar now splits his time between Paris and Beirut, and serves as director of Beirut’s French-language monthly L’Orient littéraire. His recent awards include the Prix Méditerranée and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie Hervé Deluen awarded by l’Académie Française, both in 2009. less
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Beethoven, Schubert and Ravel


With Lisa Joy Sitjar, piano.
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5:00 pm
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Concert | CU Afro Cuban and Free Jazz Ensembles


CU Afro-Cuban Ensemble directed by Adriano Santos and Free Jazz Ensemble directed by Ole Mathisen.
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Eric Kingrea's Dime Heroes


During this series, sit-down readings of new and revisited scripts are presented, generally followed more by a moderated dramaturgical discussion. less
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Gotham Writers' Workshop


The latest in a monthly series of free writing workshops, courtesy of the instructors at Gotham.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital: Angelo Spagnolo, guitar


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Reading | Readings by Neil LaBute, Romulus Linney and Others


An eclectic evening of new work by T. Cat Ford, Risa Mickenberg, Neil LaBute, Cintra Wilson, Tammy Ryan more and Romulus Linney. less
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Concert | Chamber Music Department Concert


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Community Orchestra Concert


This orchestra concert, under the direction of Peter Bellino, features students from the Extension Division.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | An Evening of Film Music


A program in scoring for film and multimedia. Ron Sadoff, Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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