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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 24, 2011?

47 free events take place on Tuesday, May 24 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 May 24 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 May . 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Gallery Talk | The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Room


An expert leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm -3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Yoga in the Park


Expert instructors, provided by lululemon athletica, lead all levels of yogis. Mats are provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Excel 1


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2003. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets. Online registration begins Tuesday, May 17 at 1:00pm. This class takes place on the 4th floor from 10:30am-12:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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

Workshop | Ping Pong in the Park


Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Birdwatching | Meet the Birds


Get an up-close visit with exotic birds from the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Education Center. Sanctuary Director, Terri Jones, and her sociable, people-friendly birds can be found every Tuesday this summer, weather permitting. Stop by to watch, ask questions, interact with the birds, or just take pictures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Book Signing | AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson signs copies of his book Rockers and Rollers


By night, Brian Johnson sings in the biggest rock ’n’ roll band on the planet. But by day, AC/DC’s frontman drives balls to the wall. Cars and rock ’n’ roll—they were made for each other.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Deanna Witkowski, Award-Winning Jazz Pianist


Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a past guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, Deanna Witkowski brings an exuberance and vitality of spirit to her fusions of jazz, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and classical music. "Witkowski's playing is consistently thrilling." (All Music Guide).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Fitness Walk NYC


A free fitness walk led by experienced instructors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Juilliard musicians perform works by Beethoven, Bach and Debussy


Program: BACH Prelude and Fugue in C# minor BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in A major, Op. 101 CHOPIN Polonaise-Fantasy LIEBERMANN Gargoyles LISZT Feux Follets DEBUSSY Reflets dans l’eau With pianist Zhenni Li.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
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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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Short Films on and by Native Americans


Featuring UNRESERVED: The Work of Louie Gong, Writing the Land, Airplane, Button Blanket, and Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Featured Library Database: Literature Resource Center


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore author biographies and overview essays on works by literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history and journalism. Find book reviews, scholarly articles and other information on thousands of literary works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

Talk | Beading Techniques Demonstration


Cody Harjo demonstrates beading techniques.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to eBay


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of buying and selling items on the online auction site eBay, and discover library material that can help you take advantage of all the site's features.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Other | Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965-2006


Sol LeWitt, an artist whose profound and radical innovations allowed us to rethink the very nature of art, first found his mature artistic voice in the three-dimensional works he called "structures." Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006, featuring 27 works made over the course of more than 40 years, is the first outdoor career survey of this extraordinary and influential body of work. Remarks at 6pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Book Launch: Mañana Forever? Mexico and the Mexicans by Jorge Castañeda


Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but also love victims? And why, though the Mexican people traditionally avoid conflict, is there so much violence in a country where many leaders have died by assassination? In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of his native country. Here’s a nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated relationship with the United States yet is host to more American expatriates than any country in the world. Its people tend to resent foreigners yet have made the nation a hugely popular tourist destination. Mexican individualism and individual ties to the land reflect a desire to conserve the past and slow the route to uncertain modernity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Free and Low Cost Health Insurance Workshop


Do you need health insurance? Think you can't afford or won't qualify for free or low cost health coverage? Come to the Free and Low Cost Health Insurance Workshop. You will learn about eligibility, qualifications and the application process for public health insurance from Medicaid, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus and other low cost options. A representative will be available to speak one on one with individuals after the program. This program is open to everyone and all screenings are confidential.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Film | Colombian Documentary: Diana Kuellar's Mamá Chocó (2010)


Mamá Chocó is the journey of a uprooted woman from Cali to the land she left. A permanent evocation of what was her home; a desire and struggle to regain a place worth living. She had 26 children and almost a hundred grandchildren. With songs and tales, in the streets of Aguablanca district, Mamá Chocó evokes her dear Chocó, a desolate and abandoned town because of the war. 60 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment. Classes are taught by experience volunteers. Come join instructors Aldo Alvarez and Shail Pandya. Share relaxation techniques!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Performance Art: Huong Ngo & Hong-An Truong's Acting the Words Is Enacting the World


Opening reception for a two week-long experiment in radical modes of education. Working with a group of young people aged 16-20, Truong and Ngo will conduct a series of intensive workshops that explore the economy from a perspective of philosophy, history, and art. This project approaches collaborative art-making and radical education through Augusto Boal’s theater techniques, using performance as a mode of knowledge transfer through an activation of spectators as actors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Refocus Your Job Search By Developing And Redefining Your Targets


Ever feel overwhelmed by your job search? Do you feel you are doing everything you can and it's still not working? Career counselor Renee Lee Rosenberg will teach you ways to approach your job search by exploring the steps you can take to create a more proactive and positive and successful approach to your your job search.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo


The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Creative Non-Fiction: Oral History


“Oral history,” Donald Ritchie tells us, “is vital to our understanding … of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people’s feelings, expressions and nuances of language.” In this course we will use oral history to explore contemporary issues that those taking the course find interesting. Whether it is stories of immigration, of understanding the monumental tragedy of various ethnic or environmental disasters, the goal of this class is to have participants be on their way to creating compelling stories from oral histories. With Jacqueline Bishop, author of five books, most recently Snapshots From Istanbul. Bishop was a 2008-2009 Fulbright scholar to Morocco and is the 2009-2010 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow. She is a full time Master Teacher in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Cypress Hills Cemetery


With Stephen C. Duer and Allan B. Smith. This visual presentation offers a rare glimpse into the 162 year history of the historic Cypress Hills Cemetery, the first rural cemetery in Greater New York, located along the border of Queens and Brooklyn. Organized under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847, the Cypress Hills provides a perfect balance of lush landscaping, funerary art and sculpture, and is a final resting place for some of America's most notable figures, such as Jackie Robinson, Mae West, and Eubie Blake. The authors illustrate and demystify the various legends of those interred in these hallowed grounds. Carved on countless headstones are mysterious markings and secretive symbols that the living can ponder.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Anthony Bourdain signs copies of his book Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook


Now available in paperback, this book is the long-awaited follow-up to Kitchen Confidential, the bestselling memoir from the host of TV's No Reservations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Belinda McKeon reads from her book Solace


A first novel by one of the most exciting new writers to emerge from Ireland—a moving story of a father and grown son thrown together by tragedy; one clinging to the old country, and one plunging into the new. McKeon delivers a stunning novel about an Ireland that catapulted into wealth at the end of the twentieth century and then suffered a swift correction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Building Bridges: Editors in Translation/Writers Being Translated


Celebrated American editors Barbara Epler (New Directions), Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Peter Mayer (The Overlook Press), Amy Hundley (Grove Atlantic), and Valerie Miles (Duomo Ediciones) will be joined by emerging Spanish language writers Andrés Barba (Spain), Oliverio Coelho (Argentina), Carlos Labbé (Chile), Javier Montes (Spain), Alberto Olmos (Spain), and Antonio Ortuño (Mexico), in a roundtable discussion on the difficulties faced by editors and authors in translation projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Chris Licht reads from his book What I Learned When I Almost Died


Morning Joe producer Chris Licht tells his personal story and is joined by his TV show's hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Screening | PBS Documentary: Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton


A screening of the new PBS documentary with commentary by producer/director Michael Pack. Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton re-invents the documentary biopic. Following the style of their acclaimed Rediscovering George Washington (2002), they take us to the Caribbean islands where Hamilton was born, to Yorktown and Wall Street where he fought and worked, to Harlem and Weehawken, New Jersey, where he lived and died. We hear a Treasury Secretary and a Supreme Court Justice, publishers, pornographers, lawyers, warriors, calypso singers and urban gang members talk about money, rights, news, battle, sex and honor — all the themes that shaped Hamilton’s life, led him to his early death and helped him make modern capitalist America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Rye Barcott reads from his book It Happened on the Way to War


Rye Barcott, one of the founders of the non-profit organization Carolina for Kibera (CFK), shows up this evening to discuss his book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Truth Be Told Student Documentary Film Festival 2011


Over three evenings, short films made by this year's students in the graduate certificate program in Documentary Media Studies are screened for the public. Media Studies faculty members Deirdre Boyle and Deanna Kamiel conduct Q&A sessions with the filmmakers following the screenings each night. These works are the product of a year of intensive study of documentary production, history, and theory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | Winner of “Best Film” award: Seo Lee's Missing Person (2008)


Winner of “Best Film” at the Jeonju Film Festival and the “Artistic Achievement Award” at Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival, MISSING PERSON will mess you up. A real estate agent takes out the frustrations of his job and life by regularly tormenting a mentally ill kid in his basement. As violence trickles down from the upper levels of society to the lower, the entire city begins to simmer and boil over with fear, hate and mistrust in this shocking dissection of modern society, leavened with pitch black comedy. Korea, 95 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Film | Colombian Cinema: Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journeys (2009)


For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. After the traumatic death of his wife, he vows to never play the accursed accordion again, and embarks on one last journey to return the instrument to its rightful owner. On the way, Ignacio is followed by Fermín, a spirited teenager determined to become his apprentice. Ignacio will try to discourage Fermín but destiny has different plans for them. 112 min. In Spanish with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:15 pm
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Concert | Ensemble ACJW


The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute, is a two-year fellowship providing the finest post-graduate musicians with performance opportunities in New York at the same time they are teaching in the city’s public schools.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Talea Ensemble performs works by Olga Neuwirth


PROGRAM: Olga Neuwirth: AKROATE HADAL (1995)
 Olga Neuwirth: ..ad auras... in memoriam H. (1999) Olga Neuwirth: incidendo/ fluido (2000) NY Premiere Olga Neuwirth: In Nacht und Eis (2006) US Premiere
 Olga Neuwirth: torsion: transparent variation (2001) A performance by the virtuosic Talea Ensemble in an evening dedicated to the music of Olga Neuwirth, one of the most celebrated young Austrian composers of our time. Her music has an unique place in the contemporary canon and the evening will provide an exciting opportunity to hear a retrospective of her work. Following the performance, Neuwirth will be present for a talk in which she will be discussing her own unique musical development.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Open Mike | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$3

Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
$5

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
11:00 pm
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Performance | Bring It! Stand-Up Open Mike


Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win "joke of the night" and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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