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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 20, 2009?

47 free events take place on Tuesday, October 20 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 20 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Discussion | The Business of Design


Business leaders discuss how design impacts their overall strategy and affects their bottom line. Moderated by Daniel H. Pink, the panelists will discuss the role of design thinking in the workplace as it relates to consumer goods as well as overall company vision. Continental breakfast buffet from 8:00 – 8:30am. Moderator: Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Panelists include: Bill Moggridge, Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, co-founder of IDEO; Sam Lucente, Vice President of Design, Hewlett-Packard Company; Jeanne Liedtka, Professor, University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 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. Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 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

Gallery Talk | Fashion and Politics


Fashion can function as propaganda, as political expression, or as a medium for raising consciousness about diverse social issues. Join Jennifer Farley, exhibition curator, as she examines the history of politics and fashion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen, Dixieland Jazz


This sextet is a staple of the New York jazz scene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “Waterways and Vistas”


Walk from the Dairy to Belvedere Castle, and learn about the intricate design of Central Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   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
12:20 pm
Free

Jazz | Anderson Twins Jazz Quartet


Program: Charlie Parker Dewey Square (Bebop Jazz) Cole Porter Night and Day (Society Jazz) Richard Whiting My Ideal (Jazz Ballad) Freddie Redd Jim Dunn's Dilemma Elmo Hope Carvin' the Rock With: William Reardon-Anderson, Alto Saxophone; Peter Reardon-Anderson, Tenor Saxophone; Aaron Kimmel, Drums; and Philip Kuehn, Acoustic Bass.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Sean Redrow, organ


A Midday Music Concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5 suggested donation

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
$6

Screening | Documentary: Steve Lawrence and Phil Lucas' Vis à Vis: Native Tongues (2003)


Indigenous performing artists James Luna (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) compare perspectives on life and society, using dialogue via satellite, scenes of their performances, and video diaries to inform the conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Anne Belle and Deborah Dickson's Dancing for Mr. B: Six Ballanchine Ballerinas (1989)


This documentary celebrates six of Balanchine's ballerinas, Mary Ellen Moylan, Maria Tallchief, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley and Darci Kistler, and shows them keeping alive the ballets and the inspiration they learned from him. For all of them, Balanchine was the single most powerful influence in their lives. 86 min. Also showing is the short Dance on a May Day (1978, 11 min.) directed by John G. Avildsen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Steve Lawrence and Phil Lucas' Vis à Vis: Native Tongues (2003)


Indigenous performing artists James Luna (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) compare perspectives on life and society, using dialogue via satellite, scenes of their performances, and video diaries to inform the conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class - Eteri Andjaparidze, piano


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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3:00 pm
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Other | Psychic Sherene Schostak


Join Andy Bichlbaum’s class as it consults resident psychic Sherene Schostak about their own future and the future of their teacher.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | “A Unified Program for Job Creation and a Clean Energy Economy”


Robert Pollin will present this lecture. Pollin is a professor of economics and a founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the United States and around the globe, analysis of financial markets, and the economics of clean energy in the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Rebecca Luker performs from her CD Greenwich Time


The Broadway soprano returns with her first solo CD in five years, celebrating the anticipation, joy and wonderment of love via both classic and contemporary songs of the musical theater.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Self Promotion On-Line and Off


A workshop presented by Ilise Benun, founder of Marketing Mentor, a Hoboken, NJ-based consulting firm and the author of 4 books including, Self Promotion Basics and Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Talk | Meet SLASH: Paper under the Knife artist Beatrice Coron


Featured at the SLASH: Paper Under the Knife exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design, Coron uses paper to create art that is compelling and inspirational.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Ocar-Nominated Canadian/Indian Film: Deepa Mehta's Water (2005)


This film, set in 1938 India, explores the plight of widows who are forced into isolation and poverty, through the eyes of one of their group, an eight-year-old girl. The women are given hope when one of them aspires to escape her restrictive life and meets a sympathetic man who follows the emerging Gandhi. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2006. 103 min. In Hindi with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Save Energy, Save Dollars


A 2-hour workshop with Cornell educator Cheryl Hines. Come join the fun and learn how to (1) Lower your energy and utility bills, (2) Reduce your family's energy usage, (3) Improve the energy efficiency and comfort of your home/apartment. Particicpants in the workshop will receive a certificate and a free tool kit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | “The Power of Display”


Curator Donald Albrecht will explore relationships between an exhibition's content and its design, both three-dimensional and graphic, as well as related means of communication such as brochures, catalogues and public programs. He is curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York and has worked as an independent curator for the Getty Center, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Vitra Design Museum and Yale University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | “Whither Capitalism?”


Gopal Balakrishnan, professor at University of California at Santa Cruz, will share his recent research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus discusses his book The Death of Conservatism


Tanenhaus' 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The discussion will be moderated by Bruce Handy, a deputy editor at Vanity Fair.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Author Reading | An Evening with Overlook Press


With readings by R.J. Ellory, Peter Quinn, and Laura Joh Rowland. The Overlook Press is an independent general-interest publisher, founded in 1971 as a home for distinguished books that had been "overlooked” by larger houses. Their list is eclectic, but areas of strength include fiction, history, biography, drama, and design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | MillionTreesNYC


MillionTreesNYC is a citywide, public-private program with an ambitious goal: to plant and care for one million new trees across the city's five boroughs by 2017. Join a discussion of the impacts—environmental, physical, mental, and economic—of trees on the well-being of New York and its people.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | National Design Awards Winners' Panel


2009 National Design Award winners participate in a panel discussion about their inspiration and drive as designers and the state of contemporary design in America. Moderator: Walter Hood, HOOD Design, Landscape Design Winner. Panelists include: Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, Design Mind Winner; Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Arts Center, Corporate and Institutional Winner; Christopher Sharples, SHoP Architects, Architecture Winner; Laurene Boym, Boym Partners, Product Design Winner; Calvin Tsao, Interior Design Winner; Jeff Han, Perceptive Pixel, Interaction Design Winner; Steve Duenes, New York Times Graphics Department, Communications Design Winner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | New York Sings: 400 Years of the Empire State in Song


In honor of New York’s quadricentennial, folk singer and musicologist Jerry Silverman will present a lecture-concert drawn from his recently published New York Sings. From the Half Moon to the Clearwater; from the Erie Canal to Lake Champlain; from Montauk to Niagara Falls; from the sidewalks of New York to the lumber camps of the Adirondacks; from Castle Garden and Ellis Island to Tin Pan Alley, the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, Silverman’s book features 136 songs about the people, places and events reflecting life in New York through 400 years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | New York’s Early Gravestone Imagery: The Art and Artisans of 18th and Early 19th Century Memorials in the Metropolitan Area


With John Zalenski. Were you to die in New York City in the year 1730, what sort of imagery would be likely to appear on your tombstone? What might appear in 1765? Or even in 1800? This illustrated talk on early American gravestone imagery presents an overview of the changing symbols and motifs carved by local and regional artisans to memorialize the New York area’s earliest residents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | “The Digital Era, Part II: Video Advertising”


A panel discussion on the transformation of digital advertising. Leading experts on the evolution of advertising and technology discuss the growing emphasis on branded content as advertisers are forced to adapt to the digital and social media that is transforming the industry. Panelists include Kurt Brokaw, professor of advertising; Aimee Duell, Director of Activation at PHD (Omnicom); Guy McCarter, Managing Director of Green Room Entertainment and The Huffington Post; and Christopher Vollmer, Partner at Booz & Company. Moderated by Jack Myers, consultant and blogger.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | “William Walker and his 'American Empire' in Nicaragua, 1855-1857”


Michel Gobat of the University of Iowa looks back to an extraordinary episode in US-Latin American relations that it is both singular and unnervingly familiar as a precedent for similar expansionist enterprises in the 20th century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Ann Jones discusses her book Women Who Kill


From Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, Jones' best-selling book investigates how and why women have murdered throughout American history, and what their cases reveal about prevailing social prejudices and legal practices. Jones is the nomadic author of eight nonfiction books, including a groundbreaking series on women and violence that includes Next Time, She’ll Be Dead, which Gloria Steinem called “the one book you should read about domestic violence.” Her work as an international journalist and photographer, reporting from every continent and many remote corners of the world, has appeared in a wide range of publications, from The New York Times and The Guardian to Marie Claire Brazil and Vogue. Hosting is Betsy Reed, executive editor of The Nation. She is the editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, a collection of the magazine's coverage of the storm and its aftermath published by Nation Books on the hurricane's one-year anniversary. She also edited the anthology Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Eoin Colfer reads from his book And Another Thing...


With his latest work, the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series takes over the reins for the next installment in another beloved series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | German Documentary: Anne Linsel’s Pina Bausch (2006)


Before choreographer Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal were known around the world, her new, unusual and original body language was ill-received. In the early days the audiences (and most critics) were irritated and confused. Tumultuous scenes in the audience were not unusual. Bausch speaks about the beginnings of the Tanztheater and the inescapable path she felt she had to follow. She talks about rehearsals, her pieces (more than 30), her co-productions with other cities and countries, and being on tour. Some of her dancers, the set designer Peter Pabst, and the costume designer Marion Cito, all of whom have been with Pina Bausch for decades, talk about working with her. Shot in Venice at the Teatro Fenice, in Lisbon and Brussels, and in Wuppertal. 44 min. In German with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Harlow Giles Unger discusses The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness


In this lively and compelling biography, Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751–1831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America’s national and international durability.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Indian Cinema: Our Family (2007)


Set in Tamilnadu, India, this film weaves together excerpts from Nirvanam, a solo theatrical performance by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and the lives of three generations of transgendered females. Aasha, Seetha and Dhana, a family bound together by ties of adoption, belong to the community of Aravanis (also known as hijras in some parts of India). 56 min. In Tamil with English subtitles. The directors, K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro, professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, will be available for Q&A after the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Jeffrey Chappell, classical pianist, performs “Crossroads of Classical and Jazz”


Chappell will present a lecture-recital illustrating the connections between classical music and jazz. The program includes works by Chopin, Ravel, and Bartok, as well as original compositions, jazz tune arrangements, free improvisations, spoken commentary, and audience participation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Seth Lind's Told


The storytelling show turns one year old! To celebrate a year of sold-out themed storytelling nights, the producers are throwing a show that will include EVERY PERFORMER WHO HAS TOLD A STORY ALL YEAR. Well, however many of them are available that night. More than 50 people have been onstage at TOLD, and a bunch of them will gather at The Kraine Theatre to celebrate with storytelling stunts and revelry. We don’t want to give too much away, but just know this won’t be like other story shows you’ve seen. It will be a joyous, narrative-driven clusterf**k of performance from a gaggle of the best tale-weavers in the city – people who win slams at The Moth, run shows at Upright Citizens brigade, are adored as Stand-Ups in their other lives, and generally populate the shows that make up the current renaissance in NYC storytelling.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | TRranslator Noura Wedell reads from Guy Hocquenghem’s The Screwball Asses


Join Wedell for the english-language release of this pamphlet, a dramatic treatise on erotic desire written by the founder of Le Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire. There will also be a screening of The Revolution of Desire, a documentary about the sexual liberation movement in France, a grassroots rebellion transformed into a movement to normalize homosexuals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Party | Sons of the Illustrious Father Release Party


Album release party! Sister Helen (Doorsy soul-saturated black-magical punk rock) and Alex Drewchin (earthy-chic psychedelic folk pop) set the stage for Sons of an Illustrious Father's bluesy americana punk-tinged folk rock.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | The Age of Innocence, Based on the Edith Wharton Novel


When Newland Archer, a young attorney engaged to the loving but conventional May Welland, encounters her European cousin, the beautiful and mysterious Countess Olenska, his life is transformed. Set against the backdrop of Old New York and illuminated by a ravishing, melodic score, this story of forbidden love and repressed passions is the most romantic of romances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Adam L. Penenberg reads from his book Viral Loop: Building a Billion-Dollar Business from Scratch


Penenberg presents the fascinating story of the entrepreneurs who first harnessed the unprecedented potential of viral loops to create the successful online businesses.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Big Bands on Film


Some of the best jazz orchestras have been filmed at their most memorable. See classic, new, and rare footage of big bands led by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Gene Krupa, and Quincy Jones. There will also be a few surprises.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | Café Jazz: Student Jazz Combos


Jazz in an intimate setting. Refreshments provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Eric Liu and Scott Noppe-Brandon read from their book Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility


When imagination becomes a habit, it can transform your work and your life. This book will enable anyone to become more imaginative and to teach others to do so as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | “Punch Up Your Life” Comedy Show


Hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes. Special guests TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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