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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 19, 2012?

47 free events take place on Monday, November 19 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 19 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 19, 2012

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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   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
$6

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom” Tour


Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal


Traces the parallel stories of 19th-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniaturenetsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Willie Nelson's Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road


Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 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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2:00 pm
$6

City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | The High Line Sunset Tour


The area around the HighLine 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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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Fences by August Wilson


Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Light refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Master Class | Dmitri Berlinsky, Violin Master Class


As the youngest winner in the history of the Paganini International Violin Competition, Dmitri Berlinsky performed on Nicolo Paganini's own Guarneri del Gesu instrument. Subsequent triumphs at the Montreal International ViolinCompetition (Grand Prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, led to appearances with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, Asia, and North and South America. Since coming to the United States in 1990 as the winner of the renowned Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Berlinsky has performed hundreds of concerts and given recitals in more than forty states throughout the U.S., as well as around the globe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class - Pamela Frank, Violin


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Video | Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 Video Re/trato Projected on the Side of a Building


Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 video Re/trato will be projected on a building to the east visible from the park’s Seating Steps, as well as the sidewalk. One of Colombia’s most influential artists, Oscar Muñoz has created an impressive body of work that investigates memory and history, and the ways both intertwine with our contemporary society. Here, Muñoz presents a video in which you see the artist painting a self-portrait on a concrete sidewalk by using a brush and water. The hand continuously paints as the portrait evaporates, creating an endless drawing. Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of identity, the work highlights the liminal space between remembering and forgetting, between an image and its obliteration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Mercy Killers, a One-Man Show by Michael Milligan


Joe loves apple pie, Rush Limbaugh, the fourth of July and his wife Jane. He is blue-collar, corn-fed, made in the USA and proud, but when his uninsured wife is diagnosed with cancer his patriotic feelings and passion for the ethos of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are turned upside down. In Mercy Killers, a new one-man play, Joe struggles with the uniquely American experience of losing your health in the land of plenty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Better Typography for Print and Web Workshop


One of the victims of desktop publishing and web design accessibility has been the art of typography. Now that we can all do it ourselves, we do it without the style that artisan typographers were using for years. This seminar will teach you typography rules and strategies for perfecting your type.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Open Mike | Comedy: The Dump!


Did heartbreak ever propel you to greatness? Did you have to flee the state because Dad said so? Did a trip to the laundromat end with gypsies placing a curse on your genitals?! Either way, YOU HAVE A STORY AND I WANT TO HEAR IT! Every Monday night from 6:00-7:00PM, Jake Hart hosts The Dump! — an open mic-storytelling hour where 4-5 lucky names get chosen from the Vault (bucket) to have 8 minutes to tell whatever story they deem worthy. Grab a beer and confess your sins among friends before the world ends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Elaine Sciolino talks about her book La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life


Sciolino shares observations about France today in conversation with Paul LeClerc, drawing on her ten years of experience as a reporter based in France.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Encumbered Memory: The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33


A talk by John-Paul Himka, Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. "Encumbered Memory" examines four recent, very different works on the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor) in order to take stock of what is happening in the memory discourse. Among the issues broached are sacralization, nationalization, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, and troublesome links with Holocaust memory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibit: Scialoja


An exhibition of works by Toti Scialoja (Rome, 1914-1998).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Introducing...Bob Dylan


Fifty years ago this year, Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut album. To mark the occasion, songwriter and Dylan interpreter Howard Fishman curates an evening saluting the living legend's most recent album release (due September 2012). Fishman and a roster of special guests respond to Dylan's newest offering as they salute this vibrant, working artist whose power to inspire and beguile remains - a half century later - undiminished.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Migration Art Expo 2012


Featuring a Book Launching and Live Brazilian Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | “Theater of the Oppressed” Workshop


This workshop will be lead by members of The Forum Project. Participants will be guided through some introductory concepts and games of Theater of the Oppressed, as developed by Brazilian radical theater practitioner, Augusto Boal. All participants should come prepared to move around, wearing comfortable clothes and shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | CANCELLED***Artists on Artists Lecture: Haim Steinbach on On Kawara***CANCELLED


Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel, in 1944 and moved to New York City in 1957, where he has lived since. He graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1968 and received his MFA from Yale University in 1973. Steinbach’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York (1979), the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (1997), and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2000). His sculptural installations have been included in myriad group exhibitions: among them, at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1993); the Musée Rodin, Paris (2011); and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2011). He lives and works in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Clash of Civilizations at Home and Abroad: Still?


With Alia Malek, a Syrian-American journalist and author of "A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives" and editor of "Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice." Since 9/11, talk of a clash of civilizations between “the West” and “the Arab/Muslim East” has remained popular and much not only have Arabs and Muslims across the ocean come under scrutiny, but so have those who call the US home. What has this clash meant for civil rights and liberties here in the US? For how we see our shared country and its citizens? For our foreign policy? And what has or will change now in the wake of the “Arab Spring,” the US presidential elections, and now that it has been more than a decade since 9/11?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | David Nasaw discusses his book The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy


Professor David Nasaw discusses his much-anticipated book with acclaimed critic and biographer Gary Giddins.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Gerard Wolfe discusses his book The Synagogues of the Lower East Side


Lovers of Lower East Side history and culture will not want to miss this event. Celebrate the publication of The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side - A Retrospective and Contemporary View, 2nd edition, by Gerard Wolfe and with photographs by Jo Renee Fine and Norman Borden. Enjoy refreshments, a book signing and good company. Information
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Other | Movie Trivia: When Harry Met Sally


Take a road-trip with your best friend's boyfriend from Chicago to New York, where you can both make your way to When Harry Met Sally trivia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Higgs Boson: Theory & Experiment, Search & Discovery


Physicists Kyle Cranmer and Neal Weiner discuss the discovery and extraordinary significance of the Higgs boson, or “God particle.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | Abraham Lincoln and the End of American Slavery


Historian Eric Foner will deliver “Abraham Lincoln and the End of American Slavery,” a public lecture on Lincoln’s transformations on slavery and race.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Club: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa


A new fiction reading group which debuts here tonight. Read and join in!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: You’ve Ruined My Life


You’ve been busy ruining Becky Yamamoto’s and Tanisha Long’s lives and now they wrote and are starring in a sketch show about it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Emmy-winning director Ken Burns discusses his book The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History


Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discusses his new PBS film about the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history with host Lou Pizzitola (author of Hearst Over Hollywood) and signs copies of The Dust Bowl, written with Dayton Duncan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play: A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Tauro


This beautiful play is a powerful, true drama of six amazing women who went and served in Vietnam. The play portrays each young woman before, during, and after her tour in the war-torn nation and ends as each leaves a personal token at the memorial wall in Washington.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Pop music legend Tony Bennett signs copies of his book Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett


Legendary singer, artist, and performer, Tony Bennett has been one of the world's most beloved entertainers for more than six decades. From the 78 to the LP to the digital age, Bennett has done it all and is still at the top of his game. In decade after decade, this artistic icon—who has won seventeen Grammys, sung for ten presidents, and performed for royalty—has refused to compromise his vision or values. His unwavering commitment to quality has helped him stay true to his classic sound and is the reason his music continues to endure. Mentored by such legends as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole, Bennett has only gotten better with age, and his popularity continues to grow as each new generation discovers his timeless songs and incredible voice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Simon Winchester reads from his book Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection


Bestselling author Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) explores every fascinating aspect of skulls -- as historical, biographical, iconographic and cultural artifacts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Mezzo Soprano Recital


With Nani Fueting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Mercy Killers, a One-Man Show by Michael Milligan


Joe loves apple pie, Rush Limbaugh, the fourth of July and his wife Jane. He is blue-collar, corn-fed, made in the USA and proud, but when his uninsured wife is diagnosed with cancer his patriotic feelings and passion for the ethos of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are turned upside down. In Mercy Killers, a new one-man play, Joe struggles with the uniquely American experience of losing your health in the land of plenty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Nat’l Weather Service & Dr. Doctor


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE is Joe Albano, Michael Cirelli, Kelly Kapron, Kevin Kelly, Carissa Leone, Michael Newman, Ryan Stadler and Brad Stuart. Dr. Doctor is Molly Cahen, Patrick Cucuta, Allison Dembek, Nate Foster, Tom Lisi, Anna Moore, Tim Racine and Matthew Yeackel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Aretha Aoki / Julian Barnett / Luke George / Stina Nyberg


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help


With Alexis Brink. Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese practice that balances the body’s energy by using the fingers and hands to eliminate stress, create emotional equilibrium, relieve pain and alleviate acute or chronic conditions. It utilizes 26 “Safety Energy Locks” which are vortexes of energy on the body, that may get blocked. When 1 or more of these SEL’s get blocked the energy flow in the body will get disrupted and disharmony or disease may occur. In this course we will learn how to unblock these SEL’s by using specific energy flow patterns which allow the energy to flow undisrupted again. We will learn and practice how to harmonize the 5 emotional attitudes, learn and experience the Main Central Flow which harmonizes the whole body and we will learn several organ flows. We will also talk about specific and individual “projects” including how to release stress; enhance memory; fight fatigue; ease back pain, headaches, menstrual cramps; boost the immune system and relieve allergies, flu's and colds; stabilize blood pressure and general well-being.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Juilliard415 Ensemble performs an all-Mozart program


Program: Mozart: Divertimento for String Quartet in F Major, K. 138 Piano Concerto in F Major, K 413 Fantasie for Solo Piano in C Minor, K. 475 Piano Concerto in A Major, K.414 With: Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Voice Recital


With Adi Sieradzki.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Matador & 1-800-LONDON


MATADOR is Shawtane Bowen, David Carl, Dion Flynn, Meredith Hackman, Dawn Harris, Vicky Mesrie, Chris O’Neil and Rachel Oakes. 1-800-LONDON is Jason Specland, Colin Longstaff, James Coker, Michael Greene, Kathryn Dunn, Suni Reyes, Amy Albert, and Greg Wilker
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: The Vigilante


Most bands write out a set list before a performance. They can direct the ebb and flow of emotions by carefully placing songs in a particular order. The Vigilante approaches a concert with a figurative blank canvass. Their concerts are entirely improvised and evolve organically. The audience decides the emotional swings, the peaks and troughs. They feel our set list. Their show is entirely collaborative. The lead singer, and an occasional band member, will talk to the audience to garner words, phrases, interactions, stories, and even musical requests from the audience to create an entire set list of completely original songs. Their music evolves in real time. And they do covers!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Base Jam


Leap — and then look! — into the newest open-improv session. Base Jam lets improv students of all stripes to jump head-first into the wonderful and frightening world of long-form improvisation. Let’s face it: Getting better at improv is about flight hours — the time spent on a stage, in a scene, in front of people — leaping first, and then looking for a place to land. Or to keep flying. Hosted by Gary DeNoia and Keith Huang.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Fresh


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this FREE stand up open mic every Monday night at 11PM. Sign up and you can be part of the show! Each week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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