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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 7, 2011?

33 free events take place on Friday, October 7 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 7 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of 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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33 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, October 7, 2011

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Conference | Defending Public Higher Education

What is happening to public higher education across the country? What is the situation at CUNY presently and what can we expect in the immediate future from state and local policy makers? How can faculty, staff and students begin to turn around policies of disinvestment in order to provide quality education for all? Please join Gary Rhoades (former General Secretary, AAUP), Barbara Bowen (President PSC/CUNY), Frances Fox Piven (Political Science and Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY) and others for a day of collective thinking about the challenges facing public higher education.

New York City, NY; NYC

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8:30 am
Free

Park Walk | Fitness Walk NYC

This free fitness walk is one hour long and led by experienced Instructors.

New York City, NY; NYC

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9:00 am
Free

Talk | Learn about the Peoples of the Plains

With Laura Browarny.

New York City, NY; NYC

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10:00 am
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour

Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.

New York City, NY; NYC

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11:00 am
$6

Workshop | Petanque in the Park

Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.

New York City, NY; NYC

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11:00 am
Free

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.

New York City, NY; NYC

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11:15 am
Free

Lesson | Juggling Lessons in the Park

Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.

New York City, NY; NYC

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12:00 pm
Free

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
Free

Jazz | Sue Maskaleris, Grammy-Nominated Jazz Pianist

Maskaleris has performed worldwide solo and as bandleader for over three decades. Her CD Unbreakable Heart features jazz legends Eddie Gomez, Lenny White, Mark Murphy and others on her songs and has received airplay worldwide. She has a seemingly endless repertoire of songs and styles. Her music has been the ticket to such remote ports as Easter Island, Oman, Vietnam, and hundreds more.

New York City, NY; NYC

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12:30 pm
Free

Tour | “A Road Once Traveled” Tour

Holding the Park's northern highlands was key in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 because armies could see their enemies approach as they sailed down the East River. History buffs will love this tour.

New York City, NY; NYC

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12:30 pm
Free

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 | Daily Screenings: Mother Earth in Crisis | Indigenous Lands and Forests

With: Los Derechos de la Pachamama/The Rights of Mother Earth and Sisa Ñambi Starts at 1pm and 3pm.

New York City, NY; NYC

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1:00 pm
Free

Conference | Uprisings and Transitions: Today's Politics and Economics in Middle East and North Africa

A conference examining the major path-breaking transitions in North Africa and the Middle East as a continuation of three panels presented Spring 2011 when the uprisings first broke out.

New York City, NY; NYC

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1:00 pm
Free

Talk | Learn About The Buffalo

Learn about the importance of the Buffalo to Nations of the Plains with William Chimborazo.

New York City, NY; NYC

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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Computer Safety Workshop

This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Learn about threats to computers and their users, such as viruses, hackers, and spam, and solutions to minimize them.

New York City, NY; NYC

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2:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Guided Tour of the Exhibition Infinity of Nations

A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.

New York City, NY; NYC

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3:00 pm
Free

Discussion | An Interview with Randy Weston, Jazz Pianist & Composer

Interviewer: Dr. David Schroeder.

New York City, NY; NYC

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4:00 pm
Free

**Film | Lebanese Film: Akram Zaatari's This Day (2003)**

Based on research into the circulation of images in the Arab world, This Day is a voyage through geography and memory via a recording of the everyday. Beginning in the 1950s with historian Jibrail Jabbur’s photograph of a Bedouin woman holding a jar on her head in a village at the edge of the Syrian desert, the video acts as a laboratory in which images—drawn from institutional and private archives—gain new meaning when viewed alongside one another. 86 min. Also showing is the short My Father Is Still a Communist (2011. Lebanon/UAE., 32 min.) Directed by Ahmad Ghossein. All that remains of the relationship between Rachid Ghossein and Maream Hamade are the letters, recorded on audio cassettes, that they sent to one another over 10 years during the civil war in Lebanon.

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4:00 pm
Free

**Film | John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses (2011): Meditation on Migration**

With glorious shots of Alaskan shores and the beautiful desolation of barely traveled snowy roads, a soundtrack rich in readings from Homer to Dante to T. S. Eliot, and the music of Arvo Pärt and India’s Gundecha Brothers, this film is a haunting journey through myth and landscape, a self-described “Proustian attempt” to suggest the idea of migration. 94 min.

New York City, NY; NYC

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4:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Latin Jazz with Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band

Trombonist Chris Washburne and his Latin jazz group SYOTOS dish out sassy harmonies, smart arrangements, and tunes that make you want to dance. It won’t take you long to figure out why The New York Times calls him “one of the best trombonists in New York.” He’s performed with all-stars across a huge range of styles, from Tito Puente to Justin Timberlake and Marc Anthony.

New York City, NY; NYC

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6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Painting: Koh Murao's The Other Stories

The artist says, "I think that making a painting is creating a story as for me. I enjoy playing in the world of imagination, and I feel creative satisfaction when I draw the images from my mind and construct a fictional scene." Shown: "The Other Stories", watercolor, pen, and color pencil on paper, 52 x 72 cm

New York City, NY; NYC

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6:00 pm
Free

**Screening | Documentary: Udi Aloni's Local Angel: Theological Political Fragments (2002)**

A first-person film by New York-based artist Udi Aloni, son of Shulamit Aloni, a founder of Israeli peace and civil rights groups. Grounded in its maker’s progressive politics, the film questions how ancient ideas of place and sanctity inform the contemporary debate over Israel and Palestine. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Followed by Q&A with director.

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6:30 pm
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**Screening | German Documentary: Marco Wilms' Comrade Couture: Strawberry Foil Dreaming (2009)**

A documentary on East Germany’s vibrant underground fashion scene of the 1980s, reminiscent of New York’s in the 1960s. Former East German model Wilms gathered lively archival footage of the period—some shot clandestinely — and intersperses it with interviews of former East German colleagues who have adapted, each in his or her own particular manner, to being “free” in a reunified Germany. 82 min. In German with English subtitles.

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6:30 pm
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Screening | 3 Short Films from the Arab World

In This House (2005. Lebanon. 30 min.) Written, directed, and cinematography by Akram Zaatari. Mahmud Hahsisho was a fighter with the Communist party during Lebanon’s civil war. During the war, he and some comrades occupied a house abandoned by its owners, and when they received orders to withdraw from their post, Mahmud left a letter to the house’s owners inside a shell casing he buried in their garden. More than a decade after the end of the war, the filmmaker decided to unearth the letter. Wanted (2011. Morocco/UAE. 27 min.) Written and directed by Ali Essafi. Known as the “years of lead,” the 1970s in Morocco were marked by severe police crackdowns on dissent, with arbitrary arrests and detention and torture in secret prisons. To survive, a number of activists lived clandestinely. Essafi uses archival footage to tell the story of Aziz, a 23-year-old activist dreaming of freedom and democracy, who lived under an assumed identity for two years before he was identified and arrested. Hand-Me-Downs (2011. Morocco. 14 min.) Directed by Yto Barrada. Barrada digs into her family history and narrates 16 myths based on unreliable narrators and unverifiable stories, illustrated with strangers’ home movies found at flea markets and archival films from the last half-century in Morocco. The program will be introduced by Essafi.

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7:00 pm
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Screening | 3rd Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival

Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the founding of the BPP. The Freedom Archives, 2000, 40 min. excerpt Nuh Washington - Call Me Nuh & Last Statement Jalil Muntaqim - Voice of Liberation 7:45pm Free Em' All - Compilation of inspiring speeches from various political prisoners. 8:45pm Legacy of Torture: The War Against The Black Liberation Movement Andreas Alegria, Claude Marks & The Freedom Archives, 2005, 28 min. - In 1973, thirteen alleged "Black militants" were arrested in New Orleans connected to events in San Francisco. Some of them were tortured for several days by law enforcement authorities, in striking similarity to the horrors visited upon detainees in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. In 1975, a Federal Court in San Francisco threw out all of the evidence obtained in New Orleans. The two lead San Francisco Police Department investigators from over 30 years ago, along with FBI agents, have re-opened the case. Rather than submit to proceedings they felt were abusive of the law and the Constitution, five men chose to stand in contempt of court and were sent to jail. They were released when the Grand Jury term expired, but have been told by prosecutors that "it isn't over yet." This is the story to date: of history, repression, and resistance. Post Screening Panel with moderator King Downing, Cisco Torres (San Francisco 8), Ashanti Alston (BPP) and Russell Shoats Jr. (son of Political Prisoner Russell Shoats Sr.)

New York City, NY; NYC

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7:00 pm
$10 suggested admission

Screening | 8th Annual CortoCircuito Short Film Festival

A showing of some of the most acclaimed and controversial Latin American shorts produced in the last decade. Over 60 examples of today's best Latino short filmmaking will be screened, including premieres from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Salvador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Uruguay, as well as a rich selection of short films by Latinos living in the US. Filmmakers will be on hand to introduce their films and participate in panel discussions. All movies have English subtitles.

New York City, NY; NYC

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7:00 pm
Free

Other | Stargazing in the Park

You do not need to bring a telescope. They will provide a 15" Obsession Telescope to look through. It is an amazing view of the heavens. You'll see planets, stars and nebulae! Weather permitting.

New York City, NY; NYC

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7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recital: Jung Eun Lee, Accompanist

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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Reid Delahunt, Voice

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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Vivian Chang, Cellist

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7:00 pm
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Open Mike | Anita Dickhuth signs copies of her book Images of America: Greenwich Village, New York

Images of America: Greenwich Village, New York Author Signing Join us tonight as we host the author, Anita Dickhuth, here to discuss and sign her book, Images of America: Greenwich Village, which covers the history of Greenwich Village from the Lenape Indians to present-day Greenwich Village. Thursday November 10, 2011 7:00 PM

New York City, NY; NYC

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7:30 pm
Free

Open Mike | Open Mic Night with Stu Richards

Come to Open Mic Night with Stu Richards. Bring your works of poetry, music, thoughts and good vibes. Sign-up begins at 7:00 pm, the evening's fun begins at 7:30 pm.

New York City, NY; NYC

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7:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Bossa Nova Jazz with Sakai

Sakai was born in Shizuoka, Japan, and began his career as a professional guitarist at Tokyo in 1989, playing there and at ”Blue Bard,” a famous cabaret venue in Kawasaki until 1995 when he moved to New York. His latest album will be released in October 2011. Come enjoy an evening of bossa nova jazz with Sakai.

New York City, NY; NYC

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8:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

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