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45 free events take place on Monday, November 18 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 18 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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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 18, 2013

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Sam Kim: Artist Residency Open Rehearsal

Consequences of the Debt Crisis for US National Security and Foreign Policy

Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Mazzetti reads from his book The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

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Workshop | Fitness Bootcamp

Start the week off right. A Group Exercise Instructor will wake up every muscle in the body through drills, strength training and sweat. Staff will be on hand to provide free fitness assessments in addition to other giveaways. .

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7:00 am
Free

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.

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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.

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11:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour

Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.

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11:15 am
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**Film | Anne Makepeace's We Still Live Here (2010): Documentary on the Saving the Wampanoag Language**

An award-winning documentary explores the cultural resiliency of the Wampanoag, the tribe that greeted the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620. The story of Jesse Little Doe Baird’s efforts to restore Native language fluency to members of southern New England’s Wampanoag communities also innovatively reflects on the long-reaching impact of early British settlement. 56 min.

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12:00 pm
Free

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour

A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.

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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour

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

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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter

Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.

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12:30 pm
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**Film | Anne Makepeace's We Still Live Here (2010): Documentary on the Saving the Wampanoag Language**

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2:00 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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2:00 pm
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Tour | 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.

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2:00 pm
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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.

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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults

Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.

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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter

Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.

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2:30 pm
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Discussion | Staging the Show: The Theater of Exhibition Making

With Jens Hoffmann, Triple Candie, and Mark Beasley. What does it mean to stage an exhibition? Can curating be defined as performative? Four curators discuss their engagement with theater, the restaging of artists work, and the exhibition.

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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Pakistan's New Political Economy? Class, State, Power and Transition

A talk by S. Akbar Zaidi, Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the School of International and Public Affairs. He is a regular contributor to Economic and Political Weekly, and is the author of twelve books, including Military, Civil Society and Democratization in Pakistan (2011); The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Pakistan (2005); and Pakistan's Economic and Social Development: The Domestic, Regional and Global Context (2004).

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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Consequences of the Debt Crisis for US National Security and Foreign Policy

With Robert Hormats, who led the first senior economic delegation to Myanmar last year, encouraging the recovering autocracy to improve its business environment on issues including rule of law, labor rights, and transparency. Hormats has held numerous high-level positions: He was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International) and also served as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, from 1977 to 1979, and Assistant Secretary of State, from 1981 to 1982, at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. He was Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1979 to 1981. He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the United States National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic adviser to Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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5:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Derrick Adams' The Institution of Me

A live art installation comprised of three performances and the process of realizing them. Over the course of three evenings, Adams creates enlarged, projected silhouettes of Jamaican Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey, Martinican folk hero Robert Saint Rose, and Nigerian political activist and Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti as a means of exploring and developing a personal conversation between the past and the present, and as a conceptual engagement between the artist in relation to their unique historical positions and continued social and political importance.

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5:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Sam Kim: Artist Residency Open Rehearsal

Choreographer Sam Kim will conclude her three-week residency with an open rehearsal of Sister to a Fiend, a work inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and clothing designer Martin Margiela. Kim began developing this work during a Spring 2013 residency.

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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Social Networking in Russia Today

This lecture will concern the role that social media is playing in contemporary Russia and will be of interest to students in media studies, global affairs, politics and foreign languages. Lecturer Evgeny Gusiatinsky is a well-known film and media critic working in Moscow, Russia. A graduate of the premier film school in Russia, The All-Russian State Institute for Cinema or VGIK, and an international authority on Russian cinema, he has published many articles and reviews in academic film journals as well as in the mass media.

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5:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Cooking Organically on a Budget

Facing challenges such as access to farmers markets, low wages, and unemployment can make it difficult to afford healthy food. Ways to cook organically on a budget. Learn to prepare organic meal for your family. Presenter Mona Lau is certified thru Thomas Edison State College of NJ in Nutrition for Optimal Health and Wellness and certified in Group Fitness thru American Aerobic Assn.

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5:30 pm
Free

Lecture | America's Playground: Ribbon Cuttings and Racism in the Nation's Urban Redevelopment

Nathan Connolly of Johns Hopkins University will be presenting this talk on how, in 1969 and to great fanfare, the City of Miami opened what it described as "One of America's First Under-Expressway Parks." Following a year of racial unrest, politicians, civil rights activists, and business leaders across South Florida pointed to this playground as a well-timed, public demonstration of interracial goodwill.

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6:00 pm
Free

**Book Discussion | Book Club: The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna**

While out on assignment, a frustrated journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland.

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6:00 pm
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**Film | Oscar-Nominated Documentary: Susan W. Dryfoos' The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996)**

This documentary is a portrait of Al Hirschfeld featuring rare home movies, special appearances by his celebrity subjects, and interviews with his late wife Dolly Haas, and daughter, Nina. The artist emerges as a brilliant, delightful, quirky, and compassionate observer of humanity. 87 min.

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6:00 pm
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Talk | Women in Early Christian History

Kate Cooper, author of Band of Angels, talks with Deirdre Good and does a book signing. 6pm reception and 6.30pm talk.

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6:00 pm
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Forum | Arts Writing & Criticism Forum: Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz is the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error and the book critic for New York Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, TIME Magazine, the Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times Book Review, among other publications.

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6:30 pm
$5

Author Reading | Daniel Siegel discusses his book Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Emerging Adolescent Mind

Professor of psychiatry Dr. Daniel Siegel lectures on the topic of his newly published book, with a focus on the later years of adolescence. Dr. Siegel will address the stigma of adolescence and the unrecognized potential of the adolescent mind to save our world.

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6:30 pm
Free

Performance | Performance Art: Terry Adkins' Sacred Order of Twilight Brothers

Terry Adkins, Blanche Bruce, and the Lone Wolf Recital Corps present Last Trumpet for brass and 4 Akrhaphones and Nobody Knows My Name for brass, voice, and percussion. Adkins is an interdisciplinary artist and musician known for engaging with unheralded biographical narratives through installation based experiences called ”recitals.” His artistic approach is similar to that of a composer, and his installations are conceived as scores, creating interplay among pieces in different media.

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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Mazzetti reads from his book The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

This talk explores the new American way of war, how the CIA moved from interrogations to drone strikes and sheds light on the CIA's secret wars. As the global manhunt for terrorists intensified in the years after 9/11, the competition between the CIA and the Pentagon also intensified -and is explained.

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6:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Ron Padgett / Thomas Devaney

Ron Padgett was born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His poetry books include How to Be Perfect (Coffee House Press, 2008); You Never Know (Coffee House Press, 2002); Great Balls of Fire (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969; rev. ed., Coffee House Press, 1990); His Collected Poems is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in November 2013. His most recent translation, with Wang Ping, is Flash Cards by Yu Jian (Zephyr Press, 2010). In 2012, Padgett edited The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard for the Library of America, and his collection of poems, How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011), was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Padgett lives in New York City. Thomas Devaney was born in 1969 in Philadelphia, PA. He is a poet, teacher, and editor. He is the author of The Picture That Remains (The Print Center of Philadelphia, 2013); A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007); The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999); and the nonfiction book Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005). He is the editor of ONandOnScreen, an e-journal featuring poems and videos, and teaches at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.

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6:30 pm
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**Book Discussion | Book Group: Jack 1939 by Francine Matthews**

Join the fiction reading group for a discussion. Like all the groups, it's open to everyone who reads the book.

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7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her book The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

The gap between rich and poor has never been wider...legislative stalemate paralyzes the country...corporations resist federal regulations...spectacular mergers produce giant companies...the influence of money in politics deepens...bombs explode in crowded streets...small wars proliferate far from our shores...a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life. These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for Doris Kearns Goodwin's highly anticipated book.

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7:00 pm
Free

Reading | How I Learned/Best In Show Reading

Come out for a super special How I Learned/Best In Show hybrid. Hear stories from some of New York's best writers and performers, PLUS drop your name in the hat for a chance to tell a 5-minute "how I learned..." story and get warm, constructive feedback from three seasoned judges who may or may not be liquored up at any given time during the show. Hosted by Blaise Allysen Kearsley and Brad Lawrence, special guests include writer and comedian Catie Lazarus, journalist Katherine Lanpher, storyteller Andy Christie and filmmaker Aaron Wolfe.

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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Lore Segal and Andrew Sean Greer discuss their new novels

Greer’s and Segal’s new novels, respectively, are The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells and Half the Kingdom, respectively. Julie Orringer will moderate the conversation.

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7:00 pm
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Video | Music Videos Then and Now

An evening of award-winning music videos by artists including The Shins, Tenacious D, Matt & Kim and Solange Knowles. The program also brings together directors, cinematographers and musicians for a conversation about the art of the music video, moderated by Bob Giraldi, chair of the MPS Live Action Short Film Department and director of such acclaimed music videos as Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield.”

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7:00 pm
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**Staged Reading | Play Reading: Homeland by Christopher Cartmill**

WHAT IS THE LANDSCAPE OF THE HUMAN HEART? HOW IS THE PLACE WE CALL HOME SHAPED BY OUR HISTORY AND OUR HOPES? Spanning four centuries and through the eyes of a Ponca leader, a Sudanese refugee, a French Trapper, a Mennonite pioneer, a Civil War Soldier, a Spanish conquistador, and others HOME LAND explores the landscape of the human heart and urges us towards a place called home. Featuring Teddy Cañez, William Franke, Annie Henk, LeRoy McClain, Sasu Weh and others.

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7:00 pm
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Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups

Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two. The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote - Buddy doesn’t want to invite Odd Henderson, his worst enemy and the school bully, to their family Thanksgiving dinner even though his cousin and best friend Miss Sook insists it’s the right thing to do. The bully won’t really accept the invitation, will he?

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7:00 pm
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Concert | The Aaron Irwin Trio

Five of the selections will be pieces from a larger work composed by Aaron Irwin which are inspired by the twelve published short stories by Breece D’J Pancake. Breece (Dexter John) Pancake (1952-1979), was an American short story author who was a native of West Virginia. He wrote one published book of short stories that was published posthumously after he shot himself at the age of 26. Pancake’s stories lay out a world located in the hills of West Virginia – “the pockets of neglected farm and mining country where people lose their livelihoods, their friends and lovers, their land and their birthrights, but remain stubbornly hewn in place.”

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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Vivek Tiwary reads from his book The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story

Join author Vivek Tiwary in conversation with David Marsh as they discuss the gay manager of the Beatles, who suffered an untimely death at 32 after steering the legendary group to international stardom.

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7:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour

For nearly 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with it's wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. It's history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth.

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7:30 pm
Free

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.

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7:30 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress: Germaul Barnes / iele paloumpis / Amapola Prada / Daniela Tenhamm-Tejos

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 artists-in-residence and international guests each season in performing.

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8:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Clifford Owens' Five Day’s Worth

Conceived of as a durational multi-day performance, Clifford Owens’s Five Day’s Worth will include the activation of objects and the staging of conflicts and resolutions. Much like his earlier interventions, Owens will create a series of photographs during the run of the performance.

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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Violin Recital

Aria Kitaguchi, violin

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8:00 pm
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Other | Milky Way's Meteorological Night Bath

Join them on the night of the Leonid meteor shower for stargazing, star charts, projections, music and more, with storytelling astrologer Margaret McMahon and astronomer Barry Gloger. Organized by Milk Way admirer Moira Williams, in conjunction with Mary Mattingly's installation Triple Island.

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11:00 pm
Free

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Classical Music | Piano Works by Robert Schumann

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