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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 2, 2009?

41 free events take place on Friday, October 2 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 October 2 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 October . 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, October 2, 2009

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Concert | Mariah Carey, Superstar Pop Singer


Carey, known for hits like "Vision of Love," "I'll Be There" and "One Sweet Day," stops by to promote her new album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Colloquium | A Workshop on Federal Privacy Legislation


Join this workshop where experts from academia, industry, government, and public interest advocacy organizations will examine comprehensive federal privacy legislation under consideration by Congress. Panelists will begin the day by reviewing prior and any current bills and offering an informed analysis and debate concerning the more controversial issues such as preemption, remedies, access and choice, and safe harbors. The morning will continue with a discussion of whether Fair Information Practices (FIPs) should remain the foundation of privacy legislation or need to be modified or abandoned. The afternoon panels will examine emerging issues such as social networking, collective privacy and behavioral advertising and assess how well any proposed bills might address these new concerns. There will also be keynote speeches by top FTC officials and participation in panels by key Congressional staffers. Our aim is to achieve meaningful progress toward a well-rounded understanding of potential privacy legislation and perhaps even to resolve some outstanding issues.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Lesson | Tai Chi


Learn the ancient Chinese Martial art with an expert. No experience necessary. Taught by Alex Hing, who has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with the Tai Chi grand master William C.C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Conference | Romanic Review, 1910-2010: Medievalism and Philology


A conference on 100 years of Romance Studies and the future of Romance Studies featuring: 9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks by Elisabeth Ladenson and Sylvie Lefevre. 9:30 Michel Zink, College de France, "Le College de France et la philologie romane" 10:00 Sarah Kay, Princeton University, "The Monolingualism of the Parrot, or the Prosthesis of Origins, in Las Novas del papagay" 10:30 David Hult, University of California, Berkeley, "Text Editing. Past, Present and Future" 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break 12:00 Richard Trachsler, Universitat Gottingen, "From the Cradle ...The Rise of Romance Philology in America (1900-1970)" 12:30 R. Howard Bloch, Yale University, "From a Daumier Drawing by a Process of Dehydration" 1:30-2:30 Lunch 2:30 Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University, "Romance Philology as Blood Sport: Romanic Review's First Decade" 3:00 Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne, "La litterature medievale dans l'histoire litteraire et la theorie : l'exemple de la Romanic Review" 4:00-4:30 Coffee Break 4:30-6:00 ROUND TABLE: THE FUTURE OF ROMANCE STUDIES with: Carlos J. Alonso, Columbia; Serge Gavronsky, Barnard College; Jane Tylus, New York University; Jesus R. Velasco, Columbia; and Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia, moderator. 6:00 Reception
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Conference | Women, Philosophy, and History: A Conference in Celebration


This conference continues the groundbreaking work of Eileen O'Neill by examining the standard narrative of the history of philosophy from a feminist perspective. O'Neill's scholarship has brought to light the texts and ideas of women in the early modern period, and demonstrated the substantial contributions they made to philosophy. Her work has encouraged the analysis of thinkers as diverse as Marie de Gournay, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Anna Maria van Schurman, Mary Astell, Émilie du Châtelet, and Damaris Masham. It has also challenged philosophers to reconsider methodological assumptions that have hidden these women and their works from view. The eminent international scholars gathered for this conference will continue this exploration and discuss the methodological, pedagogical, and philosophical implications of O'Neill's work. The conference also celebrates the impact of O'Neill's commitment to women in philosophy more generally. Participants include Lanier Anderson (Stanford), Martha Bolton (Rutgers), Desmond Clarke (University College Cork), John Conley (Loyola College, Maryland), Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University), Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania), Ann Ferguson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Alan Gabbey (Barnard College), Dan Garber (Princeton University), Don Garrett (New York University), Karen Green (University of Monash, Australia), Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania), Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth University), Dan Kaufman (University of Colorado), Anne Marie Keyes (Marymount Manhattan College), Marcy Lascano (California State, Long Beach), Ernan McMullin (University of Notre Dame), Stephen Menn (McGill University), Christia Mercer (Columbia University), James Ross (University of Pennsylvania), Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto), Tad Schmaltz (University of Michigan), Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser), Alison Simmons (Harvard University), Robert Sleigh (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University), Connie Titone (Villanova University), Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State University), Sue Weinberg (Hunter College, CUNY), and Eileen O'Neill (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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. Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Conference | The New Everyday: A Participatory “Unconference”


This event is a concluding “unconference” to the Visual Culture Working Group and its predecessors. The goal is to establish a set of small working groups on the theme of The New Everyday that will continue the project in more focused fashion. In both visual culture and cultural studies, the everyday has been a central and motivating topic/theoretical insight. However, it is clear that the “everyday” of Michel de Certeau and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies no longer exists in quite the same way. Surveillance cameras make walking an object of police investigation, while barcodes track our shopping. Subcultures are not only commodified by the likes of MTV but actively promoted. So this event sets out to ask: what are the terms of the new everyday, given the financial crisis, the recession, climate change, the Web 2.0 and the permanent counterinsurgency? What are the tactics of the new everyday? What methodological approaches does it imply for visual and cultural studies? Opening presentations of five minutes identifying a theme that could be developed as part of the project are solicited from all past members of the Visual Culture Working Groups and anyone who would like to come on board now. The morning session is devoted to these five minute presentations. To contribute a five minute presentation, simply add a title and brief abstract here. After lunch, a Long Table discussion will be held bringing together different themes that have arisen. Potential working groups will break out from the Long Table, establish their topic/strategy, and then report back to the group as a whole.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Tour of the Exhibition Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design after the Age of Oil


In a world of decreasing oil and increasing climate change, Re-Imagining Cities showcases innovative ideas, projects, initiatives and policies from around the globe that can help us re-think how we inhabit urban areas. The exhibition contains a range of interventions: from car sharing to citywide environmental initiatives to futuristic floating cities. While no one solution or set of solutions is the answer, the projects displayed in the exhibition show us the spectrum of possibilities: the changes we can make on our own and the changes we will make together, the changes we can make today, and the changes we will make tomorrow.
   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

Fair | Fall Festival


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | “Email 2: Attachments, Contacts and More”


Procedures for managing messages and contacts and sending attachments. Please sign-up for an email address before registering for this class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Symposium | Prelude '09: Ecologies, Economies, and Engagement


The sixth annual Prelude Festival celebrates over 20 of NYC's most groundbreaking performance artists and theatre-makers, offering a sneak peek of the 2009-10 season and beyond, as well as conversations and symposia with the most dynamic risk-takers in downtown theater and performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, and multiple megastores. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon: Organ Works


Features the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Conference | Visual Arts Workspaces and Contemporary Art Making


A conference examining the evolving relationships between workspaces, artists, curators, funders, journalists, and communities through panel discussions and in-depth conversations. Participants will select the in-depth conversation of their choice when they arrive and register.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Computers


Introduce yourself to the basics of computer technology. Learn about the parts of the computer (hardware), how to turn it on and off; opening and resizing "windows", and how to run programs. No experience necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Manchester Chamber Orchestra


The Orchestra under the direction of Ariel Rudiakov presents an afternoon concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby's The Thing From Another World (1951)


With James Arness. A U.S. Air Force base at the North Pole discovers a spaceship frozen in the ice. Inadvertently, they allow its occupant to thaw out. The creature turns out to be an intelligent vegetable with a thirst for human blood. 87 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | She-e Wu Percussion Master Class


Students coached by the distinguished artist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Project Kashmir (2008), plus a Discussion with Directors Senain Kheshgi & Geeta V. Patel


Two American friends from opposite sides of the divide investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted political, cultural and religious biases they never had to face in the U.S. 89 min. Post-screening discussion with filmmakers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Listen to “The Auerglass,” a two-person pump organ


The Auerglass is a two-person wooden pump organ designed by the artist Tauba Auerbach with her friend Cameron Mesirow of the band Glasser. The instrument cannot be played alone. It requires two people to play. One player has to pump in order for the other to play and vice versa. There is a four-octave scale that is divided so that each of the two players plays every other note. Auerbach and Mesirow will play a composition written specifically for the instrument. It combines music that Auerbach wrote as a child, songs from Glasser and new material. Ida Falck Øien, who creates the costumes for Glasser, has created special costumes with shifting states for the Auerglass players to wear.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Screening | New Finnish Cinema: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where Is Where? (2009)


The New York premiere of this haunting and layered consideration of how history affects our perception of reality. Fifty years ago, during the Algerian war, two young Arab boys killed their French friend. In the present day, a European poet (played by the sublime Kati Outinen, known for her appearances in the films of Aki Kaurismäki) seeks to understand and interpret this event with the aid of the character Death. 55 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Light in Motion artists talk about the exhibition


The artists are Erik Guzman, Diane Landry, and Daniel Wapner. The artists in this exhibition assemble action, shape, and texture in Kinetic Art. They depict plight and shadow evolving in space. Each artist has their own theme and process to explore the relationship between light and motion. Making this exhibition an exercise of continuous automation, changing the environment around the works, illuminating different perceptions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Ensemble ACJW performs works Poulenc and Tchaikovsky


Ensemble ACJW is the performance arm of The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Fellows from the Academy will perform works from David Lang, Francis Poulenc, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tables, chairs, and picnics are welcome on the lawn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Other | NYC Trivia Rumble


What subway line would you take to get from Yankee Stadium to Coney Island? On what street was Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album cover shot? Which direction does traffic flow on Central Park East? Test your New York City knowledge against other neighborhood know-it-alls at this popular trivia event. Compete for fun, prizes and bragging rights and meet some pretty interesting New Yorkers. The event consists of three-rounds of questions, a speed round, and a stump the panel segment with guest historians, authors and tour guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Eileen Myles reads from her book The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art


Myles, author of more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti, gives a reading/talk on her new book and will then be joined by Corey Frost and Erica Kaufman for a discussion of her work. Frost is the author of My Own Devices, a collection of travel stories from around the world. Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Figure Today


Four next-generation artists explore notions of corporeality in different and specific ways. Wei Dong’s work engages with decay and renewal while Alyssa Monks pushes the boundaries of a new academicism. The unguarded emotional moment caught by a camera is monumentalized in Jenny Dubnau’s large painted portraits. Debra Hampton utilizes labor intensive collage technique to explore the ways we might adorn ourselves. Moderator Marshall Price investigates these separate approaches to the physical aspects of the body and defines its relevancy in the art of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The Imagology and Ideology of 'Humanitarian Interventions' in Yugoslavia and Serbia


Svetozar Stojanovic of the Center for National Strategy in Belgrade speaks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Symposium | A Salute to Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)


With Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Paul Auster, Tom Bishop, Royal Brown, Georges Borchardt, Olivier Corpet, Richard Foreman, Richard Howard, Emmanuelle Lambert, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Barney Rosset, Edmund White. 7:00 p.m.Film: Rehearsal and performance scenes from Freshwater by Virginia Woolf, with Alain Robbe-Grillet and all-star amateur cast. 7:30 p.m. Recollections: Paul Auster; Olivier Corpet; Bernard-Henri Lévy; Tom Bishop; Arielle Dombasle; Philippe Roger; Georges Borchardt; Richard Foreman; Barney Rosset; Royal Brown; Richard Howard; Edmund White; Emmanuelle Lambert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Del Sol String Quartet: Heart and Seoul


An evening of stunning compositions from Korea and Latin-America. The San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet stands out as a group of pure invention—exploring new ways for a string quartet to interact with audiences, composers and other artists. The members of the Quartet are Kate Stenberg and Rick Shinozaki, violinists, Charlton Lee, violist, and Hannah Addario-Berry, cellist. The evening’s concert takes the listener on a journey from the music of Paul Yeon Lee’s Quartet Ari, Ari… ari, based on the Korean folk song Arirang, to Hyo-shin Na’s Song of the Beggars, a representation of the spirit of Korean mendicants, who howl their wheedling wails best when totally ashamed of their plight. Hae-Sung Lee’s heart-wrenching Sae (Bird) and a movement from a new work by Cuban composer Tania Leon entitled Esencia, inspired by fragrant scents that are found in Cuban home life. The brilliantly beautiful fourth movement of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Quartet, Leyandas: An Andean Walkabout, depicts a legendary figure from the Inca period--the chasqui runner, who sprinted great distances to deliver messages between towns separated from one another by the Andean peaks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Film | Edo Bertoglio’s Downtown 81 (1981)


With Jean-Michel Basquiat, Clem Burke and Deborah Harry. Also called New York Beat Movie, this film is a day in the life of a young artist who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. With music by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Tuxedomoon, The Plastics, DNA, The Lounge Lizards, and Basquiat’s own band, Gray. 71 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Forrest Gander and Lance Phillips read their poetry


Gander’s recent books include the novel As a Friend, the book of poems Eye Against Eye and the translation Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho. Phillips has published two books of poetry, Corpus Socius and Cur aliquid vidi, and a book of experimental autobiography, Imposture Notebook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Regina José Galindo: Installation and Performance


A ten-year survey of the artist's performance and installation work. Includes a performance by Galindo, the Guatemalan artist. The highlight of this retrospective is the New York premiere of a new work, "Cloth," to be performed only once: on the opening night of this exhibition. "Cloth" is part of a performance trilogy titled Crisis, for which Galindo will enact a series of transactions that reference and critique our current moment of economic instability. For this performance, the artist will sell each article of clothing she will be wearing for $5 a piece to any audience member willing to pay and remove it from her body.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Jazz Originals and Standards


With Michael Lydon, guitar and vocals, and Ellen Mandel, piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Open Mike | Open Mic Night With Stu Richards


Come out and share or listen to original poetry. The floor is open to all poets. Participants may read up to three poems.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Robert Polito and guests discuss Farber on Film


Greil Marcus, Geoffrey O'Brien and Kent Jones join editor Polito to discuss Farber on Film, which collects critic Manny Farber's extraordinary body of work in its entirety for the first time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The Mendelssohn Salon - Songs without Words


This concert will feature performances of Felix Mendelssohn's complete Songs Without Words by piano majors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Book Launch: Meaning Liam Gillick


For the critical reader, produced parallel to the survey exhibitions, eleven distinguished authors have been asked to address the social and aesthetic questions that resonate in Liam Gillick’s artwork. Their combined, at times conflicting, attempts to make sense of a shared cultural terrain sharpen critical tools that await further implementation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Erik Deutsch Band, Jazz/Psychedelia


Erik Deutsch’s music reflects an innate cinematic sensitivity, buttressing the best of modern jazz with synthesizers, reeds, analog tape to create a psychedelic soundscape of his chamber-rock songs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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