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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 7, 2009?

60 free events take place on Saturday, November 7 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 November 7 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 November . 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 Saturday, November 7, 2009

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Other | Ice Skating in the City


The 170' x 100' rink features free admission ice skating. Whether you are looking to skate before going to the office, through the lunch hour, with friends at a party, with a date, or for a spin under the stars at a holiday party, this is the perfect destination.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Workshop | Health Walking and Race Walking


For ages 18 and up. Get in shape and enjoy the park's beautiful scenery while walking at a moderate to brisk pace over mostly flat surfaces. Clinics are led by walking coach Lon Wilson of the NY Walkers Club. Each class includes a warm-up, cool-down and stretch. All fitness levels are welcome. No advance registration. For more information, call .
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Other | Music Memorabilia Show


With LPs (33 1/3 rpm), 45rpm, 78rpm, sheet music, photos, posters, books, magazines, etc. Over 10,000 items from 1800s to 1980s. Jazz, rock and roll, R & B, soul, blues, gospel-spiritual, soundtracks, theatre music, disco, pop, vocals, country, folk, opera, classical, Latin, world music, TV-radio, comedy, spoken word, big bands, swing, instrumentals, Christmas and religious, sports, etc. Collectors and nostalgia lovers will be able to find Jazz Concert Posters of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and many more. Rock and roll rarities feature LPs and 45rpm records of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jim Morrison, The Beach Boys, The Who, The Rolling Stones, et al. Rhythm and blues classics include the music of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and other Motown favorites. Folk finds are there from Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, The Weavers, Ed McCurdy et al. Country legends include Webb Pierce, Bob Wills, Johnny Cash, Sons of the Pioneers and many more. Big bands are represented by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and Quincy Jones. There is opera and classical music plus reggae from Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, blues from B.B. King and Ray Charles etc. etc. Rare African American sheet music from the early 20th century, others from the 1800s, photographs of rock and rollers from the 1950s on and much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Actions Propaganda


A workshop laboratory inspired by Actions: What You Can Do With the City, a CCA exhibition with 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Led by design team from Project Projects, the session will use poster and newspaper templates and with a poster intervention where participants will be encouraged to distribute their work in the city. With an introduction by CCA’s Daria Der Kaloustian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Workshop | Knitting Circle


Whether you already knit and/or crochet, or would like to learn- join your neighbors for sharing, learning, and support.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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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11:00 am
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks”


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Performance | City of Tomorrows: Performance and Workshop


A playful tour of the New York City of the future that merges urban geography, science fiction and guerilla street theater. Four short sci-fi scenes about New York City’s political, spatial, and social futures will be produced in an afternoon workshop. The public is invited to follow along and even participate as these utopian and dystopian tomorrows are played out on the streets of lower Manhattan. Jenifer Kaminsky is an urban planner and locative media artist. Currently she develops limited-equity housing cooperatives throughout New York City and creates projects to unearth the hidden histories of NYC. She has worked for various community groups and City agencies in New York and Boston,focusing on community planning and affordable housing development. She holds a BA in Medieval Studies from Wesleyan University and an MCP with a focus on Housing and Community Economic Development from MIT. Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography. She inserts and distributes and cartographic projects into public space and via publications. She is co-editor of the book/map collection “An Atlas of Radical Cartography” and co-curator of the exhibition “An Atlas”, which is touring nationally. She has worked with groups including the Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. Exhibitions include the Gwangju Bienniale (South Korea,) common room (NYC), Casco (Utrecht), and “Experimental Geography” (touring). She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Danish Arts Council for her work. Stephanie Rothenberg creates provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Through participatory performance, installation and networked media, her work investigates the mediation of the physical, analog body through the digital interfaces of commodity culture. Her work has been shown in the US and internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Banff New Media Institute, Hallwalls Media Art Center, ConFlux Festival and the Kiasma Theater in Helsinki. Recent awards include a 2009 Creative Capital and 2008 NYSCA. She is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches courses in Communication Design and Emerging Practices. Workshop: 12pm Performance/Tour: 3pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Mark Stafford's Temporal Exchange


The artist is tethered to a pole in the center of the space by a long tie and walks clockwise through a field of salt for eight hours, the length of a workday, questioning what it means to be "tied" to our jobs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Wall Street and Downtown Tour


Weaves together history, events, architecture, and people of birthplace of NY, financial capital of the world, and hottest new neighborhood in the city. Stops include U.S. Custom House, Trinity Church, Wall Street, NY Stock Exchange, other architectural and cultural sites. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “Amble Through the Ramble”


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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Other | Splinterheads Movie Promotion


Come get down with the clowns in support of the new movie Splinterheads. There will be a carnival atmosphere with fans, cast and filmmakers, carnival attractions and an opportunity to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime event.
   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.
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1:00 pm
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Concert | New York Opera Forum performs Donizetti’s Anna Bolena



   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Performance | Performance Art: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's The Present Doesn't Exist In My Mind, And The Future Is Already Far Behind


A performance inspired by the writings of Valentine de Saint Point and Mina Loy that reflects on past, present and future visions of lust, romanticized sexuality and the subjugation of women. Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (b. Manila, Philippines, 1970) works primarily with video and performances, in which she explores notions of gender, national identity, and social relations. Her Danish-Filipino background often serves a a point of departure for work. She is a graduate from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and the 2004 recipient of the Danish Art Council’s three-year grant. Her work has been presented both in the United State and internationally at institutions such as U-Turn Quadriennial, Copenhagen; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Malmö Kunst Museum, Sweden; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Symposium | The Future Relationship of Design, Craft and Technology


Featuring leading voices from the worlds of art and design including Paola Antonelli and Susan Yelavich.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | The Historic Imagination: Memoir and History Writing


This class for writers and readers will approach the past through the historical imagination. Participants will learn strategies for recreating the past through critical and constructive use of sources as evidence to uncover stories and documents that improve creative and historical writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | The Life and Legacy of Andrew H. Green, Gotham's First Master Planner


Andrew H. Green is a name unfamiliar to most New Yorkers, yet his legacy is everywhere: Central Park, Riverside Park, and Morningside Park; the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the northern Manhattan street grid—indeed, the very five-borough city that exists today. Green, who is sometimes described as a 19th-century Robert Moses, was a pioneering city planner and preservationist, and the driving force behind the movement to consolidate the municipalities around New York Harbor into a single metropolis. Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione will present an illustrated lecture recounting Green's remarkable career. After the program, attendees will be invited to walk to the Green Memorial Bench in Central Park, Andrew H. Green's only public monument in the five boroughs, to raise a toast in his honor.
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1:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | The Life and Legacy of Andrew H. Green, Gotham's First Master Planner


Green is a name unfamiliar to most New Yorkers, yet his legacy is everywhere: Central Park, Riverside Park, and Morningside Park; the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the northern Manhattan street grid—indeed, the very five-borough city that exists today. Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione will present an illustrated lecture recounting Green's remarkable career. After the program, attendees will be invited to walk to the Green Memorial Bench in Central Park, Andrew H. Green's only public monument in the five boroughs, to raise a toast in his honor.
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1:00 pm
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Tour | “Seneca Village”


Seneca Village was Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Book Signing | Artist Luc Tuymans signs copies of his monograph


Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, whose relationship to painting is structured by television, cinema and by the lingering effects of WWII; more recent historical preoccupations have included the dramatic turn of world events post-9/11. Published in conjunction with the artist's first full-scale American survey, Luc Tuymans by Helen Molesworth is without question the authoritative publication on him.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Children's Literature Cafe


All adults with a love for children’s literature are invited to this informal, relaxed discussion of books, reading, and youth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Making Ends Meet


With educator Cheryl Hines.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Union Square: Crossroads of New York


The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more!
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2:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: Eating and Drinking by Susan Haar


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...

Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: The Peter Maloney Project (Kolossal Hero!) by Peter Maloney


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films by and about Arab Citizens or Israel


A journey into the next generation of films by and about Arab citizens or Israel. Heavy Silence Director: Maysaloun Hamoud - Visions and pieces of memory are unveiled through a small crack in Alla's prison cell. Through these excerpts of memory and fantasy Alla faces the futility of family honor and discovers the fate of the woman he loves. Two (Shnaim) Director: Shimon Richik - In the midst of the war in Gaza, a mixed Arab and Israeli couple debate the question of military service.,/br> Bus Station - Ir-Amim Director: Lily Sheffy - Two women, Arab and Jew meet at a bus stop in Jerusalem after a trip to the market. When their bags of tomatoes get confused they begin to understand the similarities and differences of their worlds. Tel Aviv - Jaffa - Director: Boaz Rosenberg - A look into one of the unifiers of Israeli Jewish and Arab society – Hummus. This short documentary part of the Tel Aviv-100 docu-challenge project follows one of Yafo's oldest and proudest establishments. Oranges Director: Maha Assal - A sweet story of friendship and neighbors. A man is angered by his neighbor picking oranges off his tree and decides to seek revenge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:45 pm
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Gallery Talk | On Sister Corita, Pop Artist, Teacher and Nun


Alexandra Carrera, Director of the Corita Art Center, speaks on the work of Sister Corita. Drawn to the power of the word, Sister Corita incorporated fragments of text, slogans and signs taken from billboards, street signs, advertising jingles, pop songs, poems, newspapers and magazines into her work. She sampled quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., Rainer Maria Rilke, Phillip Roth and the Psalms. Sister Corita also appropriated images from magazine and newspaper covers of the Viet Cong, the Pope and the Berrigan Brothers burning draft cards as well as the Wonder Bread logo. Corita's innovative use of loaded text, used alone or combined with images, created powerful graphics.
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3:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Katia Bassanini's A Soldier's Lust


This is a newly commissioned performance by Swiss artist Katia Bassanini. The performance lasts 5-10 minutes and starts at the top of each hour. Bassanini performs as the lusty “Madame D." Inspired by the Latin myth of the goddess “Diana,” A Soldierʼs Lust pays homage to the historic Futurist artist and performer, Valentine de Saint-Point, to whose infamous “Manifesto of Lust” the performance is dedicated.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Tracey Emin reads from her book Those Who Suffer Love


Emin reading from her new book of poems and her 2008 autobiography Strangeland, followed by Q&A with RoseLee Goldberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Eastern European Rock Bands


A conversation with the bands of Rebel Waltz, a music festival featuring Eastern European bands active in the underground music scene behind the Iron Curtain. Moderated by Matthew Covey and with the screening of Beats of Freedom or How to Overthrow a Totalitarian Regime with a Simple Use of Home-made Amplifier, a documentary on Polish music of the 80s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Saturday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: Death of an Engineer by Ken Mandel


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
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4:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: The Rare White Alligators by Keith Alan Benjamin


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Accidental Movement with Mariangela Lopez


A workshop open to everyone. No prior movement experience is necessary. The workshop space will become a platform to share individual experiences to create the identity of a group. The participants will explore their own creative and movement potential through releasing their personal memories and perceptions of their own environment by utilizing the power of the group to then build a collective experience. Lopez's work has emerged from the participation of different members of the community where she lives and develops her work. Through this workshop she hopes to build a core of participants for the development and presentation of a new work. This is an opportunity to be part of a creative process. The participants may choose to come only once or continue the exploration in a weekly basis. You don't need to start from the very first week, but remember that your consistency will determine your participation in the further development of the work. You don't need to want to perform to come to the sessions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Recent Collages by Jane Maxwell


In her intricately layered collages, Boston-based artist Maxwell combines color, texture and text into dynamic compositions that explore issues of contemporary womanhood, body image and the feminine ideal. From movies and television to magazines and billboards, we are inundated with representations of the perfect figure; Maxwell deconstructs these idealized forms by depicting women who have been stripped of fashion and airbrushing, shaping her figures instead through a deep layering of vintage produce crate labels, Hollywood posters and related ephemera.   
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: Flag Day by Susan J. Vitucci


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | One Every Day, A Group Show


With Glen Baldridge, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Colby Bird, Lydia Diemer, Geoff Hargadon, M. Ho, Matthew Hopson-Walker, Packard Jennings, Gary Kachadourian, Chad Kouri, Michael Krueger, MegaWords Magazine, Julian Montague, Carlos Motta, Leslie Mutchler, Scott Nobles, Adam Pendleton, Post Typography, Evan Roth, Kim Rugg, Dexter Sinister, Stephanie Syjuco, Temporary Services, Rachel Perry Welty, and Liz Zanis.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Downtown/East Village Artists: Cold Water


Singer-songwriter and performance artist Justin Bond and New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als curated this show, a unique exhibition of works by artists who are also performers rooted in the East Village, downtown, CBGB’s, La MaMa scene. Think of Cold Water as performers-on-paper. The performers listed are known as just that–performers–but we’d like to showcase them as visual artists, which they are as well. Participating “performers-on-paper” include: Kate Bornstein, Theo Kogan, Caden Manson, Thurston Moore, Jemma Nelson, Lady Rizo, Tilda Swinton, Chris Tanner, Leslie Thornton, Darryl Turner and Rufus Wainwright.
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Moyra Davey's My Necropolis


Davey's first solo exhibition in New York since 2003. This show will include a survey of works spanning nearly twenty years of Davey’s practice, as well a new series of photographs and a new film. Over the past two decades, Davey has built an extraordinary body of work comprised of photographs, writings, and video. As opposed to a current predilection for large-scale, digitally manipulated photographs, her seemingly modest works reclaim a practice of photography grown out of contingency and accident. At stake is not just a series of discrete works, but rather an entire practice of engagement with the world, a reflection on possibilities of producing and consuming, and on the psychic lives of objects. Her practice of close looking reflects something like Virginia Woolf’s observation that the most satisfying kind of reading is that done with “pen & notebook” (or camera) in hand. Moyra Davey (b. 1958) lives and works in New York. She was recently the subject of an expansive survey at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. Coinciding with this exhibition, Yale University Press published a monograph of her photographs and writing, Long Life Cool White. She exhibited previously with Colin de Land’s gallery American Fine Arts in 2003, 1999, 1996, and 1994, and from 2005-2008, she was a partner in the collaborative gallery Orchard.
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Cristina Vergano's Just for You


A playfully surreal vein runs through this body of work, along with a subtle feminist concern and a wink to the masters, old and modern. Pop Art’s influence emerges in many of the paintings in the form of reversed talk balloons or Lichtenstein paintings taken out of context. This ironic, graphic imagery playfully offset scenes Cristina Vergano painted in the classical style. Several paintings represent Vergano’s recent obsession with Picasso. In two portraits of his companions, Olga Khokhlova and Françoise Gilot, she brilliantly blends Picasso’s style with her own, and inserts trompe l’oeil clippings of his poetry, drawings and photos. Vergano’s “Demoiselles d’Avignon” - set in a California modernist (whore) house populated with nude beauties - are caught in the act of taking off their African masks to reveal to us their own animal heads. They recall female versions of Egyptian gods as well as classical statues with a substantial nod to surrealism. Two powerful, monochromatic life-size canvases feature Muslim women, revealing under their traditional drape - just for you - brightly colored, sexy western lingerie. The Holy Mosque in Mecca and the Shah Mosque in Isfahan are identifiable in the backgrounds of the half-naked women. These paintings pose immediate questions about the conflict between religion, traditional culture, transgression and personal identity. Are the women identifying with Victoria’s Secret models, or are they true to themselves when wrapped in their burqas? Finally Cristina Vergano’s 1950’s-style flying saucers seamlessly appear in the distance in some works, adding yet another dimension to her already rich paintings. They act as catalysts, symbolizing everything we anticipate or fear: the advent of a golden age, the economic crisis, perhaps even the Rapture.
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Vitaly Komar's New Symbolism


Komar will exhibit a new series of paintings that incorporates religious and political iconography to explore the meaning of visual symbols. The paintings juxtapose portraits that range from Christ to Lenin and depictions of objects including the hammer and sickle, an hour glass, and a serpent, from different eras. Contrasting the sacred and profane, these figurative forms are placed within abstract fields that suggest a greater cosmos suffused with celestial light. Komar, born in Moscow in 1943 and living in New York since 1978, worked in collaboration with Alex Melamid as part of the nonconformist art movement in the Soviet Union. His series, Three Day Weekend, has been exhibited at Galerie Sandmann, Berlin, at Cooper Union Humanities Gallery in New York, and at The London Jewish Museum of Art.
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Performance | Performance Art: Olek's 100% Acrylic 11.07.09” (after Jan van Eyck)


Performers will wander the streets of Chelsea starting at 4pm and will culminatewith a performance at the gallery at 6pm. In this piece, the characters from Jan Van Eyck's “The Arnolfini Portrait” (1434) come to life and wander the streets of Chelsea. Adorned in Olek's crocheted replicas of the costume in the painting, the performers mingle with gallery goers as they slowly unravel their handmade costumes. As their walk leads back to the gallery, it will culminate with a performance by Olek. Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness. She received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture,was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apexart gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
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Performance | Performance Art: Tamar Ettun & Emily Coates' Empty Is Also


Integrating objects, a dancer, a musician, and video, this piece inverts the usual conception of dance and sculpture in relation to the ephemeral by investigating dance’s durability versus sculpture’s ultimate disposability. The dancer inhabits the sculptural forms even as she rearranges them to create a sequence of landscapes that shift over time. The sculpture reflects the dancer’s energy and agency, while her movement absorbs the shape and nature of the objects with which she interacts. The tension between the perceived natures of sculpture and dance serves as the installation’s primary conflict, or reason for being. Music by Jane Ira Bloom. AUDIENCE IS INVITED TO ENTER AND LEAVE AT ANY TIME.
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Guy Ben-Ner's Untitled: A Conversation With Himself About How Art Can Serve Life


Filmed and edited over the course of twelve months, Israeli artist Ben-Ner will present an unusual “live film,” that captures an ongoing phone conversation between the artist and himself as he flies to and fro between Berlin and Tel Aviv, the respective locations of his girlfriend and his family. Unlike a regular film, which is edited externally after all of the shooting is complete, Ben-Ner’s film never leaves the camera during a twelve-month period. The film always remains “live,” awaiting the next shot, which might take place in either Israel or Germany. Ben-Ner’s “storyboard” is life itself, and each scene occurs in real time, although with significant ellipses in between. Since the only editing is done entirely in-camera, the move from one shot to the next requires a real physical move: the camera traveling the full distance from Tel Aviv to Berlin and back as the dialogue progresses. Shot in Hebrew, and subtitled in English, the film presents a conversation in rhyme, which discusses how art can be at the service of life and the repercussions of such a unified relationship.
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Performance | Performance Art: Nils Bech and Lina Viste Groenli


Performing on a set designed by Lina Viste Groenli, Nils Bech will combine sparse acapella versions of contemporary and classical music and well-crafted electronica in a conceptual stage show laced with cabaret and contemporary dance, in collaboration with saxofonist Bendik Giske. Nils Bech is a classically trained singer with a focus on performance. An integral part of the Norwegian art and music scenes, he has taken part in exhibitions in New York, Zürich, Basel, Berlin, London, Vienna, and Oslo, as well as performing with his own band, Nils Bech. Lina Viste Groenli (b. Oslo, Norway, 1976) creates objects that delve into the dilemmas and discrepancies of semiotics. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art in 2003 and in 2005 participated in a residency at IASPAS, Stockholm. She has shown extensively throughout Europe as well as in the United States and Japan, including exhibitions at Alagon Gallery, Chicago, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo and the Mukojima Expo, Tokyo.
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Author Reading | Rebecca Solnit reads from her book A Paradise Built in Hell


Anarchism is founded on the belief that civil society triumphs over institutional authority. Please join Solnit for a reading and discussion of her startling book about the altruistic and generous acts of ordinary people in the wake of disaster. Solnit reminds us of the joys of community, even when public solidarity results from tragedy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: The Carpetbagger's Children by Horton Foote


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: Through the Window by Abigail Gampel


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   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Precollege Symphony Orchestra



   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: PERFORMAT


PERFORMAT is a traveling, site specific performance inspired by 70’s feminism, mixed up and spiced with Vogue magazine, the television show Big Brother, and plastic surgery, starring the magnificent Lucie Fontaine, interpreting a project by Marcella Vanzo, with music by Jennifer Walshe. The performance will be available afterward as a limited edition LP. Lucie Fontaine is an art employer who lives and works in France. Her two art employees used to define her as the Jamie Lynn Spears of contemporary art: “pregnant and in search of easy success.” In 2007 Lucie Fontaine opened a space in Milan, which hosted unconventional projects by Italian artists Marcella Vanzo, Valerio Carrubba, Alessandro Roma and Mauro Vignando, and first time solo shows by Riccardo Beretta, Cleo Fariselli and Enza Galantini. She exhibited in Murcia, Spain (with Fruit and Flower Deli) and in New York, where she presented her peers at “No Soul For Sale” at X-initiative. In 2008, T293 gallery in Naples hosted Lucie Fontaine’s first solo show. The art employer is currently working on the book “Perché Napoli” forthcoming from Archive Books (Berlin). *L’Anti-Oedipe was written by the two of us, and since each of us was several, we were already quite a crowd.” Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari. Marcella Vanzo (b. Milano, Italy 1973) works with video, performance and installation, investigating all dimensions of the human being, from the mythical to the political. In her work reality and fiction form a tight knit unity that questions the representation of everyday world. Solo and group shows include Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Walker Art Center, Museo Reina Sofia, Galleria Continua. Awards include the New York Art Residency at Columbia University and Acacia-Emerging Artist Award, Milan. Jennifer Walshe (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1974) is a composer, vocalist, and performer known for her performances of extended technique. She earned a BA from Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1997 and a doctoral degree in composition from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 2002. Her compositions have been performed by such groups as Alter Ego, Ensemble Récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, Ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, the Crash Ensemble, ensemble ascolta, Champ d’Action, and the Rilke Ensemble. Walshe has participated in festivals such as RTE Living Music, Bastad Kammarmusik Festival, Ultraschall, Ars Musica, Wien Modern, Composer’s Choice, SoundField the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik Darmstadt, Stockholm New Music, BELEF, and Traiettorie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance Art: Ingrid (Inzwischen)'s Discoteca Flaming Star


A music, film, and spoken word performance that draws on a partially fictionalized biography of 70s performance artist Ingrid, and the confrontational politics of the No! Art movement’s Boris Lurie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:15 pm
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Other | The Inwood Astronomy Project: Look at the Stars through a Telescope


THIS WILL OCCUR ONLY ON CLEAR NIGHTS, SO PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO CONFIRM. Come look through a telescope at the stars. The Inwood Astronomy Project is the largest public outreach program in New York City, hoping to get 5000 New Yorkers to come look through a telescope for the first time. They will be giving away posters, postcards, and other doodads. There is always a telescope to look through, and a knowledgeable astronomer to answer questions. Bring a flashlight for the climb to the hilltop. Call for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Yemenwed's Bedroom w TV and a Woman Lays w Aide


The audience is drawn into a dance and music performance set on a stage designed to resemble a bedroom in the Laguardia Houses, a public housing project in the Lower East Side. Yemenwed is a project series founded in 2006 by the artist Gloria Maximo. Through the disciplines of sculpture, architecture, painting, video, animation, costuming, dance, and musical composition, Yemenwed has produced objects, installation, videos, and zines. Yemenwed’s work often engages abstracted themes of displacement and detachment, fluid identity, and the peripheral imaginary, while developing an expanding network of symbolic forms, objects, characters, and architecture. Yemenwed artists have participated in exhibitions, and performances, in New York at the Asia Song Society Gallery, Bard College, The Center for Book Arts, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, John Connelly Presents, Museum of Modern Art, and the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo). Presented by Fake Estate. Part of Lust Weekend. FRE
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | underground horns, Funk/Jazz


Committed to a funky, jazzy “audio gumbo” informed by brass band traditions of all kinds, this tuba-driven collective brings its addictive sound above ground for a BAMcafé Live evening overflowing with subterranean grooves aplenty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Work-in-Progress: Raw and Unchained by Jane Condon


Part of the theater's "Octoberfest" event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Floating Kabarette


Part cabaret, part burlesque and part variety, each show features some of the best performers from New York City and beyond. Starring: Lisa Natoli: aerial beauty Miss Saturn: sexy hula hoop-stress Brian Newman: downtown crooner Elie Venezky: trapeze adonis Max Darwin: magician extraordinaire Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies: bawdy dance troupe Hosted by Olga & Bjorn Music by armsofgandhi Free haircuts by the Gal
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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Concert | Montserrat, Bolero/Bossanova Singer


Spanish from the Canary Islands, settled in Brazil, Montserrat has been a clear standout in Latin American romantic music since her 2005 debut CD Anoranza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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