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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 1, 2014?

60 free events take place on Thursday, May 1 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 1 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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60 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, May 1, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, an Adaptation by Arthur Miller
free events nyc The Music of Sun Ra Ensemble
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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


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 | 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | 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.
   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
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Workshop | Board Game Social


Join an all-new weekly Game Social to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. The Board Game Social features games in their classic form with a board, special pieces and a little bit of competition. Try classics like Sorry, Clue, Monopoly, or Life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Tour: Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes


Join a Museum Ambassador for an engaging tour through the exhibition. Tour highlights include discussion of underwater panther and thunderbird, figures in Anishinaabe cosmology; and an in-depth look at artists such as Norval Morriseau, George Morrison, and Keesic Douglas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Northern Park Welcome Tour


See the Park’s northernmost highlights on this walk from Conservatory Garden along the Harlem Meer and past the North Woods. Route easy to negotiate, a few stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Talk | Caring for Your Home Photograph Collections


Photograph Conservator Erin Murphy will talk about the specific ways to care for personal and family photograph collections. This presentation will focus on proper housing and storage of collections in a home environment, providing simple advice that anyone can follow to prolong the life of photographs of all formats, and how to keep them out of harm's way. Please note that no conservation treatments will be demonstrated in this session.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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
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Concert | Ensemble ACJW performs works by Schoenberg and Bach


Program: Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 1079 Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo (“Sopr’il soggetto reale”) György Ligeti Ten Pieces Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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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: 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Varied World of 17th-Century Song


Soprano Laura Heimes and lutenist Deborah Fox explore 17th-century song accompanied by lute and theorbo. Exquisite texts blend with beguiling melody in English songs by Dowland, Lanier, Lawes, and Purcell, while passion meets virtuosity in Italian songs by Strozzi, and Monteverdi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Sam Wood and Sidney Franklin's Oscar Winner Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939): A Life Remebered


Starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn. The life of a shy schoolmaster from his first job to his death. 114 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour


Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | The Alexander String Quartet performs works by Mozart and Bartók


Program: Mozart String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K. 575 Bartók String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 With: Zakarias Grafilo, violin 1; Frederick Lifsitz, violin 2; Paul Yarbrough, viola; Sandy Wilson, cello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:45 pm
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Concert | College Recitals: Piano, Violin, Double Bass


4pm Alex Jenkins, Double Bass 6pm Jae Ook Lee, Violin 8pm Guitar Students of Sharon Isbin 8pm Mika Sasaki, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Cynthia Hoffman, Vocal Performance


Cynthia Hoffmann is a member of the voice faculties, where she also teaches a class in Vocal Performance, and of the Juilliard School, where she served as Chair from 1995 to 2006. She has been an adjunct voice faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music and from 1984 to 1992 directed the Judith Raskin Opera Class at the 92nd Street Y School of Music. Ms. Hoffmann has been a voice faculty member of summer programs including the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy; the Yong Pyong Music Festival in Korea; the Centro Studi Italiani program in Urbania, Italy; the University of Miami School of Music program in Salzburg, Austria; the Amalfi Coast Music Festival; the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria; and the Opera on the Avalon in Newfoundland, Canada.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Oliver Stone's 4-Time Oscar Winner Platoon (1986): Vietnam War Drama


With Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger. A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. 120 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Spring Birding Tour of the Park


Discover the birds that call the Park home, as well as those that may stop by during migration. A surprising diversity of avian visitors drop in, even in the heart of midtown. Sightings could include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, even an American Woodcock!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Piano Dept Marathon: Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin


Piano department students and faculty perform selections from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin in commemoration of the 250th year of Rameau's death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction


With Amy Gross. Learning to be mindful — to pay attention in the moment without resistance or judgment - can shift the course of our lives. Instead of being driven by our fears and hopes, we learn how to listen to ourselves and others, to pause and respond wisely. In this course, practice MBSR’s tools for living: the body scan, sitting meditation, mindful yoga and walking meditation, all of which increase self-awareness and empathy, connect us to our intuition, weaken unwholesome mental habits and replace struggle and stress with ease and relaxation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Masayo Nishimura / Micaela de Vivero


Masayo Nishimura's The New Horizon - Scenes in northern Japan nearly two years after the disaster features color photographs shot in northern Japan from mid to late 2012. This is the area hit hardest by the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011. Micaela de Vivero's The You and the I is an installation in which the viewer is invited to an exploration of an environment that resembles a journey inside an organism: visceral, abject, though fascinating. During this journey the viewer is encountered with the question of who is the subject.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | 3 Art Shows: Coeleen Kiebert / Elisa Garcia de la Huerta / Inhye Lee


Three artists show their latest work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Berlusconi, Monti, Renzi: Labor Policy in the Italian Economic Crisis


A lecture by Stefano Sacchi, University of Milan. In an attempt to tackle Italy's employment problems, new Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has just introduced in Parliament a set of labor policy measures - collectively dubbed Italy's Jobs Act - involving changes in labor contracts and a reform of unemployment benefits. This is the latest in a seemingly endless train of labor reforms since the late 1990s, that have created a labor market now much more flexible than usually acknowledged. The talk focuses on Italy's labor policy and policymaking since the onset of the Great Recession. In a first phase, in the last years of Berlusconi rule, distributive coalitions were forged to adjust to the economic crisis in a largely incremental way. Later on, under the Monti government and amidst the Eurozone crisis, a thorough labour market reform was approved with the aim of buying credibility on the international arena and restoring investors' confidence in Italy. Renzi's projected reforms follow in this vein, but talk to domestic actors in an effort to revive animal spirits in a depressed country.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights Tour


Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Citizens of Memory: Citizenship Between Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration


In establishing itself as the successor to National Socialism, West Germany faced a paradigmatic dilemma of political transition: how to situate itself in relation to the state-sponsored crimes of the immediate past. Over the course of several decades, and in the face of conflict and controversy, a public embrace of responsibility for the Holocaust came to play a key role in the definition of German national identity, even as private discourses continued to focus more on the fate of non-Jewish Germans than on the Shoah. Although it has only recently been remarked, the period in which this public consensus about the Nazi genocide evolved corresponds exactly to the years in which transnational labor migration transformed national demographics. This lecture pursues the entanglement of post-National Socialist and post-migrant histories in the Federal Republic and attempt to think through its significance for the politics of memory and citizenship. Building on our concept of “memory citizenship,” we make visible forms of exclusion and discipline as well as counter-hegemonic interventions at the intersection of memory and migration. We argue that transcultural migrant memories of genocide can help remake the German model of working through the past and move German, Turkish, and European memory cultures in a more radically democratic direction. Featured Speakers: Yasemin Yildiz (University of Illinois), Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: but that joke isn't funny anymore...


With: Aaron Aujla - Luca Dellaverson - Egan Frantz - Simone Leigh Kianja Strobert - Chris Succo - J. Patrick Walsh III - Brenna Youngblood
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Outsider?


Works by Davida Adedjouma, Mercedes Kelly, Dick Lubinsky, Keith Pavia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Joy in Singing Composers Concert


An evening of songs by American composers Stephen Foster and Lori Laitman, presented by Joy in Singing.
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Concert | Joy in Singing Composers Concert


An evening of songs by American composers Stephen Foster and Lori Laitman, presented by Joy in Singing.
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Opening Reception | New Artwork by Greg Smith


Greg Smith's fifth exhibition with the gallery and his latest film, BREAKDOWN LANE. The film, featuring the artist as protagonist on a dystopian road trip, was documented using a series of hand-made and modified cameras.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Photographers Martin Hyers and William Mebane sign copies of their book Empire


From 2004 to 2007, American photographers Martin Hyers and William Mebane made a series of road trips across the United States to create a photographic archive of objects. They photographed inside the homes, work places and in public spaces of average Americans. To provide further context for these objects, they embarked on subsequent journeys to document the exteriors of peoples' homes, and the surrounding urban and suburban landscape. These projects - Empire, 2008 Vegas, 2009, Levittown, 2010, Houses, 2011, Brooklyn, 2012 and Here, 2013 have been combined to create a time capsule of American material culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photography: Paul Margolis's Hidden Ellis Island


Photographer Paul Margolis is a member of a vanishing breed: he is one of a handful of artists documenting life on New York City's streets with black and white film; he processes and prints his own images. Margolis' color photography of Hidden Ellis Island, done in 2002, was a departure from his usual black and white work of scenes with people in them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Richard Ravitch discusses his book So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises


Few people have had more of an impact on the recent history of New York City and State than Richard Ravitch. He built some of its most notable buildings, cleaned up its most notorious public transportation agency, helped the city escape financial ruin, and served as Lieutenant Governor in the wake of Eliot Spitzer’s resignation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | In Another Country: Writers Bernd Cailloux and Daniel Zahno in Conversation


German author Bernd Cailloux and Swiss author Daniel Zahno will read from and discuss their work, focusing on a sense of place and how the location one writes in influences the act of writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | The Architects and Architecture of Brooklyn, 1870-1930


Suzanne Spellen, a tour guide, writer and architectural historian, gives this illustrated lecture featuring residential, civic and sacred architecture by some of Brooklyn’s most important architects and developers. It will focus on the best of the best, and take a look at the architect's lives, their work, and their legacy. The times they lived in, and how society and technology shaped their work will also be explored. The authors of Brooklyn’s fine streetscapes will be anonymous no longer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Sensory Tour of the Exhibit Several Circles


Guggenheim educator and art historian Georgia Krantz specializes in descriptive and multi-sensory programs for people who are blind or have low vision, and adapts the utilized techniques for programs for sighted audiences. Her work grew out of recognizing the power of the mind's eye, or "the different ways visitors who are blind or have low vision were experiencing - were seeing - works of art." The potential for sighted audiences to learn from differently sighted audiences is significant. Krantz poses the question, "In a world where everyone sees differently anyway, how is it even possible to precisely reveal the work through the lens of a single viewer?" Krantz will lead tours of Several Circles during which select works will be examined using different techniques adapted from her work with audiences who are blind. Props will be used and, for certain works, lights will be lowered. Visitors will have an opportunity to experience art through various senses, not just the privileged sense of sight. The aim is to sensitize observers to the diverse and nuanced means by which an augmented awareness of the sensorium capacitates an enhanced encounter with art.
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Discussion | Bernard Malamud Tribute: Remembering a Master


Bernard Malamud would have turned 100 on April 26. Celebrate his life and work with a panel discussion featuring the Malamud family as well as prominent admirers of the author from literature, cinema, and beyond. The evening will open with old Calliope recordings of Malamud reading his work. The event was organized by debut novelist Boris Fishman, repaying a debt to an author who taught him perhaps more than any other as he worked on the book. He will moderate the panel, which will also feature Alan Cheuse, Philip Davis, Clark Blaise, Liesl Schillinger, Kevin Baker, Téa Obreht, and Bharati Mukherjee.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Dan Chiasson and Lydia Davis read from their new books


Dan Chiasson’s fourth poetry collection is “Bicentennial” (Knopf, 2014). Lydia Davis’s newest title is “Can’t and Won’t: Stories” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
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Lecture | How We Pray Is Who We Are: This Is Your Life, American Jews


A lecture delivered by Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman. More than what we say to God, prayer is what we say to each other. It is the prime symbolic vehicle by which we play out the changing nature of Jewish identity. The Conservative movement, reflecting the Jewish ethos of Eastern Europe, reached fruition only with its prayer book, following World War II. In the Reform movement, the Union Prayer Book already had provided a standard around which Reform Jews, mostly from Western Europe, could rally. But the message of prayer is more complex than just a book. The book is a script for worship, the symbolic act by which we stake out who we are. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but never dull and always fascinating, the story of America’s worship is the story of American Judaism in the making.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Jen Doll reads from her book Save the Date


Your presence is requested for the launch of Jen Doll’s memoir featuring a reading from the author and matrimony-themed stories told by Rembert Browne, Camille Dodero, Nick Greene, Katie Heaney, Maris Kreizman, and Maureen O’Connor.
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Author Reading | Lydia Denworth reads from her book I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language


As a science writer, Lydia Denworth dealt with her son's hearing loss by delving into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development and Deaf culture. She's turned her investigation into a very readable book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Sebastian Barry reads from his novel The Temporary Gentleman


In the highly anticipated new novel from two time award-winning author Sebastian Barry, Jack McNulty writes his story about being an Irishman commissioned to the British Army during the Second World War.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | The Music Of Ornette Coleman Ensemble


The Music Of Ornette Coleman Ensemble focuses on performing the early compositions of Ornette Coleman. An aural and intuitive approach to learning his compositions as well as improvising is emphasized. The ensemble explores music from his early albums including Something Else, This is Our Music, Tomorrow is the Question, and The Shape of Jazz to Come.
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Forum | What do Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary and Jewish Theological Seminary have in common?


Come and find out! The Morningside Heights Historic District Committee invites you to a forum with NYC historian Jim Mackin to give you the unique and fascinating history of why three such important institutions chose to build in Morningside Heights, essentially side by side.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Choreographers, Composers and Designers Concert


The Choreographers, Composers and Designers Concert is a culmination of a year-long course taken by second year Bachelor's and first year Master's students in the dance department. The result is an adventurous combination of original choreography, music, and sets, and one of the most exciting concerts of the year. Choreographers: Lorena Delgado, Caitlin Sikora, Leslie Miller, Tyra Jackson, Frances Baca, Melanie Gonzalez, Stephanie Troyak, Alison DeFranco, Mariel Harris, Dimitri Kalaitzidis, Hannah Cullen, Kyle Filley, Nick Grubbs, Jane Anthony, Nico Gonzales, Naomi Davis, Mat Talaugon.
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Film | French Cinema: Gustave Kervern's Louise-Michel (2008)


What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to ... hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? A social madcap comedy. 90 min.
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Concert | Percussion Music from Africa


Featuring music from Burkina Faso, Cote D’lvoire, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal, and especially the gyil from Ghana’s Upper West region.
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Performance | The Andrea Dworkin Theater Project


A new one-woman theater piece based on an unpublished work by Andrea Dworkin, author of Woman Hating, Pornography, Intercourse, and other powerful feminist classics. The text by Dworkin contains all the hallmarks of her searing prose: fierce and irreverent, bold and tender, mordantly witty and emotionally raw. Please note that because of the intimate nature of this reading, latecomers cannot be seated. Contains strong language and graphic sexual situations.
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Park Walk | The Haunted High Line Tour


The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. Join a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | yMusic, Forward-Looking Classical Sextet


Hailed by NPR’s Fred Child as “one of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music,” yMusic is a sextet of young performers equally comfortable in both the classical and pop music worlds. Their performance will feature new works by Sufjan Stevens, Blake Mills, Mark Dancigers, and others.
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Kyoko Hashimoto


Legendary pianist and teacher Gyögy Sebök described Kyoko Hashimoto as an “extraordinary musical talent” and “one of the finest of her generation.”
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Concert | College Piano Recitals


8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Chi Wang, Piano 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Mi Hwa Ryu, Piano
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Theater | Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, an Adaptation by Arthur Miller


When Dr. Thomas Stockmann discovers toxic contamination in the water used at the local baths, he expects to be hailed as a hero. But since the baths are the town’s main source of revenue, the community fights to silence him – and he learns that there are forces more powerful than truth.
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8:00 pm
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE: THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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Jazz | The Music of Sun Ra Ensemble


For years the music of Sun Ra was only available to those brave enough to spend time in his Arkestra. A master composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist, Sun Ra and his works are overdue for critical attention by music students. Sun Ra compositions give students a range of challenges with music of odd intervals covering territory from ballads to swing and beyond. In the Music of Sun Ra Ensemble, compositions are rehearsed in a very unusual big band format. They are presented in a unique style that offers an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings that gave rise to the music. His lyrics, speaking of space travel and a planet without cemeteries, challenge students to expand their horizons and understanding of art music. The multidisciplinary vision that combines poetry, music, and dance with lyrics, characteristic of the Sun Ra legacy, is developed within this ensemble.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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