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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 15, 2012?

41 free events take place on Monday, October 15 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 15 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 Monday, October 15, 2012

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 am
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Other | Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus: Visit the Famous Statue Up Close and 70 Feet in the Air


This major new artwork has been created by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. The work places the 13-foot-tall statue of Columbus in the center of an American living room six stories above the city streets, recontextualizing the historical monument and temporarily transforming it into a contemporary artwork. The room will feature many of the trappings of a domestic living room—lamps, a couch, a coffee table, a television, and more—as well as custom wallpaper by the artist. Through large, loft-style windows, visitors will have dramatic views of Central Park and Midtown Manhattan that will be seen from Columbus’s perspective for the first time. Pass holders are asked to climb six flights of stairs to a height of 70 feet above street level and to descend by a second set of stairs. Flat, rubber-soled shoes are strongly recommended. This exhibition is ADA accessible. If a visitor requires the use of a mobility device (e.g. wheelchair, crutches, or a cane) or has a condition that prevents him or her from using the stairs, a hoist is available. Visitors under 13 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Those between the ages of 13 and 18 may visit without an adult, however a parent or guardian must obtain a pass for them. Given the physical demands of visiting the exhibition, it is not recommended for children under the age of 5. Strollers are not permitted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


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


This is a 60-minute abridged reading of the play, followed by a 20-minute talk back and Q&A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Club: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot


Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
$6

City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


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


This is a 60-minute abridged reading of the play, followed by a 20-minute talk back and Q&A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Conference | Russian-Jewish Migration Across Borders, Across Time


This two-day conference brings together leading scholars from Russia, Israel, Germany, and the U.S. to explore a wealth of topics related to Russian migration of the past and present, from the exodus of inter-war Russian Jews to representations of the migrant experience in Soviet cinema to post-Soviet migrations to the U.S., Israel, and the European Union. Panels include: 'Crafting the Narrative of Russian-Jewish Migration' 'Listening to the Voices of the Fourth Wave' 'Deportation and Internal Migration, 1914-1949' 'The Problematics and Politics of Overseas Russian-Jewish Migration Between the Wars' 'Soviet and Post-Soviet Migration, 1989-2000'
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Dance Performance | CABULA6/Jeremy Xido presents an open rehearsal


Step inside Jeremy Xido’s process during his residency to witness and participate in the development of his new work, Part 3 of The Angola Project Trilogy, premiering at Dance New Amsterdam. Eat cake, talk about heartbreak, punch a punching bag, nap, read thoughts and words taped to walls, expect anything and expect nothing at all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Club: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris


Refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Concert | Pierrot at 100


To explore and illuminate Arnold Schoenberg’s melodrama Pierrot Lunaire on the occasion of its 100th birthday, conductor Jennifer Peterson leads operamission in an interactive performance of the elusive masterwork, featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Berkebile. The performers join select Schoenberg authorities in both verbal and musical interplay for this unique presentation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Other | Book Launch: Aziz + Cucher: Some People


A monograph released in conjunction with an exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Open Mike | Comedy: The Dump!


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


Ron Littlefield was re-elected and sworn in for a second term as Mayor of Chattanooga on April 20, 2009. Mayor Littlefield is a 1968 graduate of Auburn University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Screening | The Films of Maya Deren


Presented by Orit Halpern. Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowskaia, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Uggie, the dog from The Artist, barks about Uggie: My Story


Uggie is the beloved Jack Russell Terrier best known for his roles in The Artist and Water for Elephants. This is a great chance to meet one of the most talented dogs in Hollywood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Noël Burch & Allan Sekula's The Forgotten Space (2010)


Conceptual photographer and writer Allan Sekula presents a film essay co-directed by Noël Burch. The award-winning film based on Sekula's critical work, Fish Story, continues to understand the contemporary maritime world in relation to globalization. 112 min. Following the screening is a conversation with the artist, architects from LOT-EK and Moore Collegiate Professor of History Victoria de Grazia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Jon Gertner discusses his book The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation


Calling Bell Laboratories the most innovative institution of the 20th century, the author reveals the forces behind its creativity. Bell Labs, which thrived from the 1920s to the ’80s, was a citadel of science and scholarship, birthplace of the century’s most influential technologies, and a hotbed of creative thinking. This illustrated lecture explains why researchers and business leaders alike look to Bell Labs as a model—and long to incorporate its magic into their own work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen


Dorothy Roberts explores the roles of race, gender, and the neoliberal privatization of resources in the construction of a new biocitizen. Roberts argues that science, big business, and politics are converging to support a molecularized understanding of race, health, and citizenship that ultimately helps to preserve inequities. Dorothy Roberts is the Penn Integrates Knowledge/George A. Weiss University Professor, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and professor of sociology at University of Pennsylvania. An internationally recognized scholar, public intellectual, and social justice advocate, Roberts has been a leader in transforming public thinking and policy on reproductive health, child welfare, and bioethics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Redefining the River: Challenges in Urban Waterfront Design


Join Alex Washburn of the New York City Department of City Planning as he leads a discussion on the challenges of integrating design into New York’s most complex landscape: the waterfront. Participants include Regina Myer of Brooklyn Bridge Park; Matthew Urbanski of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates; Jonathan Marvel of Rogers Marvel Architects; Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture + Urban Design; Roland Lewis of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; and Michael Fishman of Stantec.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Walls and Bridges Season 4: The Naked Truth


What is particular about women¹s depiction of sex and sexuality? Why are these portrayals held to different social and aesthetic standards than those by men? Fiction writer Lynne Tillman, performer and writer Wendy Delorme, and fiction writer Chris Krause will consider the nature and precise limits of the double standard. They will chart how it informs both the creation and reception of their art. Moderated by Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Czech Documentary: Helena Trestikova's Private Universe (2011)


Private Universe chronicles the life of one Czech family over a remarkable time span of 37 years. By adding archive TV footage and putting the family’s story into a wider context, the director was able to paint not just a family portrait, but also the portrait of a country. 83 min. Followed by a Q&A with the director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Joyce Carol Oates and Edmund White discuss The Oxford Book of American Short Stories


Literary giants Joyce Carol Oates and Edmund White discuss the latest edition of The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Oates.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sherman Alexie reads from his book Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories


Acclaimed poet, novelist and short story writer Sherman Alexie returns with his new collection. Alexie will sign books after a talk and reading.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | The Debut Prize Presents: Rising Russian Poets with Key US Poets


Participants: Dina Gatina, Alla Gorbunova, Lev Oborin; Moderator: David Lehman Carrying forward Russia’s rich poetic tradition, acclaimed rising poets read from their work, discuss the variety and richness of contemporary Russian verse, and consider their art and its role in the context of Russia's volatile political and social reality. Reading alongside them will be key US poets (names tba) whose work, in breadth of vision and acclaim, both relates to and differs from that of the Russian poets in interesting ways. To be moderated by David Lehman, one of the foremost editors, literary critics, poets, and anthologists of contemporary American literature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Maurizio Lazzarato's The Making of the Indebted Man


Gina Bull and Laurel Ptak host an open reading group, this week discussing chapters 1-2 of Maurizio Lazzarato's The Making of the Indebted Man. This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition To Have and To Owe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Cello and Violin Works by Ravel and Others


PROGRAM: Thomas Larcher: TBA - commissioned work (world premiere) Alfred Schnittke: Stille Musik for violin and violoncello (1979) Maurice Ravel: Sonata in C major for Violin and Cello (1920) Zoltán Kodály: Duo op. 7 for violin and violoncello (1914) Austrian cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and French violinist Nicolas Dautricourt team up to perform the world premiere of a commissioned composition by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, as well as pieces by Ravel and Kodály, as well as a more recent composition by Schnittke. This event is also part of the ongoing collaboration with Konzerthaus Wien.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Talk | Richard Dienst discusses his book The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good


Theorist Richard Dienst will consider the social worlds created by debt and look at indebtedness as a form of social, economic and political bond—as explored in his recent book. This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition To Have and To Owe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Lecture | Spectacular Supernovae


Various stars in the universe end their lives in a spectacular explosion called a supernova. While supernovae are some of the most energetic phenomena known to science—a few can even be seen by the naked eye—a great deal of mystery still surrounds their origins. Mid-mass stars have been confirmed as supernova progenitors, but the connection between supernovae and the most massive stars in the universe is purely theoretical. Join postdoctoral fellow Joanne Bibby and Richard Gilder Graduate School student Graham Kanarek as they introduce the theory that predicts massive stars as supernova progenitors and how scientists might confirm such a theory in the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | The Claremont Trio performs works by Beethoven and Brahms


Program: Beethoven: Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1 No. 1 Gabriela Lena Frank: Folk Songs for Piano Trio (2012) NY Premiere Brahms: Trio in C Major, Op. 87 Known for its "passion and precision" (Boston Globe), the Claremont Trio is amidst an exciting year of world premieres, sold out concerts, and a new CD of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Join them for Beethoven, Brahms, and a New York premiere by Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Gabriela Lena Frank, "an exciting and necessary voice" (L.A. Times).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Cafe Jazz


Student performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Nat’l Weather Service & Dr. Doctor


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE is Joe Albano, Michael Cirelli, Kelly Kapron, Kevin Kelly, Carissa Leone, Michael Newman, Ryan Stadler and Brad Stuart. Dr. Doctor is Molly Cahen, Patrick Cucuta, Allison Dembek, Nate Foster, Tom Lisi, Anna Moore, Tim Racine and Matthew Yeackel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital - Kathleen Supov, Piano, with SIDEBAND Laptop Orchestra


A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Matador & 1-800-LONDON


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


Comedy Expo is a chance for solo-sketch comedians to show their work for an audience like you! So come and check out these future SNL stars: Line up TBA Hosted by Sam Martin (@HiMyNameSam) and Matthew Robert Gehring (LOUIE)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
$5

Performance | Comedy: Base Jam


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


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