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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 29, 2010?

77 free events take place on Wednesday, September 29 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 September 29 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 September . 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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77 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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Birdwatching | Birding Tour of the Park


Discover the varieties of birds that call the Park home during the migratory season with a guided tour. Presented in partnership with New York City Audubon Society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Symposium | Public Management & the Lindsay Years


A two-day symposium taking a critical look at the impact the innovations introduced during the Lindsay Administration (1966-1973) had on the field of public management and the use of rational analysis to inform decision-making at the state and local levels of government. Participants include: * Ken Auletta, well-known author and social commentator * Carter Bales, Chairman, NewWorld Capital Group * Lewis Feldstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation * Ester Fuchs, Senior Policy Fellow, Partnership for New York City and Professor and Director of the Urban Policy Program, SIPA, Columbia University * Peter Goldmark, Program Director-Climate & Air, Environmental Defense Fund * Edward Hamilton, Chairman, Hamilton Rabinovitz & Associates, Inc. * Marc Holzer, Dean, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University * Jim Kagen, Consulting Director, The Chartis Group * Dale Landi, Vice President, State University of New York at Buffalo (Retired) * Joan Leiman, Chief Executive Officer, New York Presbyterian Hospital * Stan Litow, Vice President-Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President, IBM International Foundation * Jerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the Leadership for a Networked World Program, Harvard Kennedy School * Robert Newman, President Emeritus, Continuum Health Partners, Inc.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Festival | New Green City Festival


GrowNYC presents New Green City 2010, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors to New York City’s largest annual green event. Following the success of Green Brooklyn, New Green City showcases government agencies, non-profits, entrepreneurs and community & corporate partners at the forefront of environmental stewardship, education and awareness. GrowNYC’s free day-long fair featuring interactive exhibits, DIY tutorials, and multi-media art exhibits. So join them as they celebrate the best of what a green New York City has to offer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | All About Computers: Windows Basics


Hands on using wireless laptops. A basic review of the Windows operating system. Learn how to customize, improve and organize your computer by managing files, folders and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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

Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing in the parks and gardens with a professional artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Park Walk | Exploring Hallett and the Pond Tour


Take a break to enjoy the Park! Take this half-hour walk through the Park's smallest woodland area and learn its history, enjoy its peacefulness, and discover the mystery behind the waterfall. Due to limited space in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, the first 20 people to sign in at the beginning of the tour will be able to participate! Call for directions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This series 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 Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Kuni Mikami, Jazz Pianist


Born in Tokyo, Kuni Mikami came to the United States in 1975. He continues to play for many of the top big bands around including the Lionel Hampton Orchestra; Duke Ellington; Cab Calloway; Illinois Jaquet; and George Gee Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Lecture | The Promise of Peer Review


In today’s networked digital environment, is the peer review system the best way to recognize quality research and scholarship? Featured speaker Dr. Vivian Siegel, Research Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University, will help us find out. Scholars have come to rely on peer review to ensure that the research they publish is valid—that the conclusions are justified by the data and that the ideas presented are new and important. However, peer review requires unbiased experts—people in the same field as the author who can support the publication of research that meets these criteria. Is there really such a thing as an unbiased expert? Does peer review need fixing? And if so, how should changes to the system be evaluated?
   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.
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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Daily Screenings: Corn Is Life


A showing of the short films on the Native American food that changed the world: The Gift, Na Florentina, La Cumbia del Mole and Corn Is Who We Are. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz: Mike Renzi, piano


Renzi is an American composer, music director, pianist and jazz musician. He is partner to jazz singer Cynthia Crane, with whom he has published a Christmas album titled Our First Christmas. Renzi also has his own jazz group called "The Mike Renzi Trio", who published an album together with Ben Webster.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Windowfarms Showcase


Lush, trickling, fountain-like window curtains grow mixed baby greens, herbs, snap peas, cherry tomatoes, peppers, kale, small squash, edible flowers and more. These living sculptures are spreading virally through city windows of the world. You too can grow about 25 vegetable plants in your apartment windows with hydroponics using city recyclables & join a open design project of 14,000+ people determined to make an impact on the food system. Founding artist Britta Riley and the Windowfarms Team showcase the newest windowfarm design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | WorkSearch Orientation


Are you a 40+ job seeker? WorkSearch is an online system which provides links to job openings, skills assessment tools, and training programs at no cost to individuals. After taking the orientation, WorkSearch is accessible to registrants through the Internet, or through Library computers. Attendees will be shown how to download the information to a USB flash drive. (Bring your own USB drive.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | French Baroque Vocal Music


Ensemble Solaire (Sofia Dimitrova, soprano; Zheng Jenny Huang, harpsichord; Nick Dinnerstein, cello) will perform a variety of Baroque French masterpieces, including the humorous cantata Amore piqué par une abielle by Louis-Nicholas Clérambault.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Master Class | Bassoon Master Class with Michael Werba


Students coached by the distinguished artist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Bill Wurtzel is a renowned guitarist with the experience to play jazz that fits any event or venue. He has performed worldwide with many great jazz artists. His groups have played for countless private affairs featuring mainstream jazz and the Great American Songbook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Celebrate the Art of Espresso


Join Master Barista Giorgio Milos from illy coffee to celebrate the art of espresso. You will be able to sample the perfect espresso and ask Milos any question about the art of coffee, from bean selection to sustainability and brewing, as well as get his expert advice to help you brew the Perfect Espresso at home. Free espresso and free chocolate tasting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Oral Cancer Screenings


Screenings are on a first-come first-served basis. No appointment is needed. Testing is quick and painless.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | PowerPoint Level I Workshop


Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “Waterways and Vistas”


Learn about the intricate design of the Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure al Fresco Drawing


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Internet 1: Basics


Hands on using wireless laptops. An introduction to the Internet, including getting connected, using a web browser, and navigating web pages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Pianist Peter Schaaf performs Isaac Albéniz's Iberia


Program Isaac Albéniz Iberia Schaaf is known as a portrait photographer of musicians, but he is coming out of a 25-year hibernation as a performing pianist. Last year he played two Iberia pieces at the IKIF Festival, and on the Cervantes Institute's "Gardens of Spain" series, but prior to that he last played in public in 1984 accompanying Jon Vickers in Schubert's Die Winterreise.
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3:00 pm
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Theater | Prelude 10 Theater Festival


The annual festival celebrates artists at the forefront of contemporary NYC theatre and performance. PRELUDE 10: "Techniques for Live Stimulation: Communication, Provocation, Simulation" asks: Why Does Live Matter?" Call for more info.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the Aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Symposium | Escape to Life: German Intellectuals in New York


Planned to take place 65 years after the end of World War II, this symposium is intended to present a series of portraits to a wider audience. In New York, the US gave shelter to a large number of leading intellectuals from the German-speaking world, saving their lives in most of the cases. These public figures either stayed in New York where most of them arrived or moved on to California or other places like Princeton. Some of them - Brecht, Mann, and Horkheimer, for example - returned to Europe soon after 1945. The lectures of this symposium are meant to explore the impact the US, and New York, had on these authors/artists, and on their work. The speakers are also invited to analyze the influence these intellectuals had on American culture and the transformations which happened to their thoughts when translating them into another language, culture, and intellectual arena and addressing them to the American audience. Finally the symposium will discuss how those who returned passed on the American experience to Europe. The speakers may feel completely free to choose the specific angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) they regard as elucidating. The conference is accompanied by an exhibition of portraits by Fred Stein.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to WordPress


What do the NY Times, Jay-Z and Fail Blog all have in common? They all use WordPress. WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform on the web today. It is free, open source and easy to use. Any skill level from experienced to novice can get a blog up and running in minutes. But, WordPress can do much more then just help you publish a blog.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Shape Up NYC - Free Nutrition Seminar


At this event, Trisha from Shape Magazine will be leading the discussion on "sugar" and have fun, free giveaways.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation about Comedy and Politics


Comedy and politics have gone together for a long time, and in this age, political comedy is everywhere. We have reached a point where instead of just mocking the news, the comedian Jon Stewart was ranked as America’s most trusted news source by particpants in a Time online poll. How does comedy influence politics? Do jokes about politicians create their image, or just reflect what people already believe? Does political comedy lead people to be more critical of politicians or just more cynical? Join this conversation about the influence of comedy on politics. This event will feature The Gregory Brothers, from YouTube and Barely Political fame for their Auto-Tune the News videos; Baratunde, the web editor of The Onion and co-founder of the blog Jack & Jill Politics; Dan Powell from Comedy Central’s Ugly Americans; and Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life.
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Lecture | Anthropology Public Lecture


With Eric Santner, Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Discussion | Artist Julian Schnabel discusses his book Polaroids


The American artist and film director has been taking unique large format Polaroids over the past several years using a 20x24 inch Land camera made in the 1970s. The photographs reveal a poetic that has to do with day to day life of being an artist; some pictures are of family, friends, workplace, painting outside, and things he built or just noticed. They record the transformation of life into art and then art into life. Schnabel and curator Petra Giloy-Hirtz discuss his work and the formation of the book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Darius Marder's Documentary Loot: Some Things Are Buried for a Reason


A feature-length film that follows two World War II veterans and their guide across the globe in search of their buried wartime treasures. Neither knows the other, but both happen to know Lance, an inventor, used-car salesman, and amateur treasure-hunter, who, against his better judgment, agrees to help them find their lost loot. 86 min. Q&A with Marder follows the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Glory Crampton performs from her CD Unusual Way


The beautiful theater soprano offers up some of her favorite songs from Broadway and the West End.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to WordPress


What do the NY Times, Jay-Z and Fail Blog all have in common? They all use WordPress. WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform on the web today. It is free, open source and easy to use. Any skill level from experienced to novice can get a blog up and running in minutes. But, WordPress can do much more then just help you publish a blog.
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Latino Heritage Month: Our Roots Revealed


Keynote Speaker: Claudio Iván Remeseira, writer and journalist, director of the Hispanic New York Project of The American Studies Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Living on Less


Knowing what you spend is the key to developing a successful budget and spending less. Get to know where you can find items and services that are discounted or even free.
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Book Signing | Nancy Princenthal signs copies of her monograph Hannah Wilke


The gallery has represented Hannah Wilke since 1972. Wilke is represented in many museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Verbund Collection, Vienna.
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Resident Film Festival


Films about and by resident artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Volleyball After Work


Join other adults for good-natured games of volleyball. Scorekeeper and balls provided. No experience necessary.
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6:00 pm
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Lesson | Walk NYC


A program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Parks will have 30 park locations throughout the city staffed with trained walking instructors to lead walks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Nao Bustamante talks about her work


Bustamante is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work encompasses performance art, video installation, sculpture, filmmaking, and writing. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Sundance 2008, 2010, and the Getty Center, as well as numerous international theater and performance festivals. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship, and in 2007 was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Workshop | Yoga for Everyone


A variety of yoga classes taught by some of the area’s most enlightened instructors. The philosophy of yoga, which aims to unite all aspects of the individual – body and mind and soul – to improve health, happiness and tranquility is deeply beneficial on its own or as a complement to other wellness programs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Dance Lesson | Capoeira Class with Luando


Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance.
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Email 2


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to manage your contacts through your address book, and how to send and receive document and picture files as email attachments.
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6:30 pm
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Screening | German Documentary: Andres Veiel's Black Box BRD (2001)


A compelling documentary which goes far beyond questions of terrorism, politics and state power. Alfred Herrhausen, a top executive of Deutsche Bank, the epitome of power and wealth, was assassinated in 1989 by the RAF. Wolfgang Grams, at first a RAF sympathizer, then a member and the boyfriend of terrorist Birgit Hogefeld, is killed under mysterious circumstances in 1993 – shortly before his arrest at the Bad Kleinen train station. Veiel gives both the parents, brother and friends of Grams a chance to speak, as he does the widow, friends and colleagues of Herrhausen. 101 min. In German with English subtitles.
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Lisa Kahane discusses her book Do Not Give Way To Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx, 1979-1987


The author and photographer spent a good deal of the 1980s documenting the South Bronx, which at the time was plagued by arson, disease, poor economic planning and displacement. View the images she captured "the human side of urban decay" as the neighborhood fell apart and tried to pick itself back up.
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Forum with Phillip Lopate


Lopate is the author, most recently, of At the End of the Day: Selected Poems and an Introductory Essay. He has written three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir about his teaching experiences, a collection of movie criticism, an urbanist meditation, and a monograph on the photographer Rudy Burckhardt. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lopate will read poems and field questions about his writing at this forum. Moderated by David Lehman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Renowned biologist Richard Dawkins reads from his book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution


In a brilliant follow-up to his international blockbuster The God Delusion, Dawkins lays out the case for evolution -- how we know it's a fact -- while launching a fierce counterattack against proponents of Intelligent Design.
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Al Jaffee & Mary Lou Weisman discuss their book Al Jaffee’s Mad Life


Journalist Weisman reconstructs the Mad Magazine cartoonist's extraordinary life. The book includes original illustrations by Jaffee.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Darin Strauss reads from his book Half a Life


Strauss' memoir is a longer look at a story he first told for This American Life, about hitting and killing a classmate in his father's Oldsmobile, and the darker changes his own life took afterward. More than just a memoir, it's an examination of the accidental and intentional and what it means to have killed and lived, particularly now that Darin is a young father himself. Darin Strauss is a graduate of the New York University creative writing program in fiction, where he was awarded a teaching fellowship. His writing has appeared in GQ, Time Out, and literary journals, among other publications. He spent more than three years researching and writing Chang and Eng, which is his first novel.
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Author Reading | Diane Wolff reads from her book Tibet Unconquered


East Asia expert Wolff explores the vast history of Chinese–Tibetan relations, tracing the long and tangled history of the two nations from the days of the Mongol invasion, to the emergence of the Dalai Lama in the fifteenth century, and up to the contentious twentieth century and the past 60 years of Chinese occupation.
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Screening | Film and Discussion on the History of Apartheid in South Africa


Have You Heard from Johannesburg is a seven-part series follows the worldwide movement and deftly illustrates the power of people coming together to bring down an oppressive regime. It is produced and directed by Connie Field. This screening, subtitled "Free at Last," is of one of the seven parts of the series. Following the film, there will be an expert-led discussion and Q&A, and a complimentary beer and wine reception sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery. Speaker: Graeme Simpson, an expert in the field of transitional justice who was an integral part of developing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is currently Lecturer-at-Law at Columbia Law School and Senior Advisor to the Director General of Interpeace, a peacekeeping organization based in Geneva.
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: Dunroamin by J. Holtham


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: Subterranea by Paco Tolson & Jon Hoche


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
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Concert | Opera Hispánica


Opera Hispánica is set to emerge as the first opera company in New York City to present exclusively Latin American and Spanish Opera, Zarzuela, and related musical works. Launching a preview tour, Opera Hispánica aims to promote talented artists and composers and to serve the greater New York community through arts education and culturally relevant musical performances.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pulitzer Prize recipient Isabel Wilkerson discusses her book The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration


A sweeping history of the hidden story behind the trek of Southern blacks to the northeast and west.
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Author Reading | Risa Lewak discusses her book Don’t Stalk the Admissions Officer


A funny and insightful guide that helps navigate the college admissions process.
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Author Reading | Thaddeus Russell reads from his book A Renegade History of the United States


The historian and cultural critic argues that the freedoms we cherish today were won not by "good Americans" but by the people who lived outside "respectable" society.
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Lecture | To Write a Republic: Experience, Heroism and Poetics in the National Security State


Poet, novelist, critic, scholar and activist Ammiel Alcalay will discuss the role of poetry and poetics as active thought and resistance to the restructuring of North American society during the Cold War. Alcalay's work has ranged from scholarship, translation and activist writings on the Middle East and the Balkans, to recontextualizing the "New American Poetry" in political terms. His books include: the cairo notebooks (1993); from the warring factions (2002); Scrapmetal (2007); After Jews & Arabs (1993); Memories of Our Future (1999); and translations from Bosnian, Hebrew and Arabic, including Semezdin Mehmedinovic's Sarajevo Blues (1998). His latest book, Islanders, was recently published and a new book of essays, A Little History, will be published later.
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Forum | UK Zinesters & Zine Culture


Including: Steve Larder, Isy Morgenmuffle, Edd Baldry, Tom Fiction, Natalie Anarchafeminist and the American-in-the-bunch Alex Wrekk. These folks are responsible for the likes of Last Hours, Hey Monkey Riot, Morgenmuffel Zine, Brainscan, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, Rum Lad Zine, Another Dinner Is Possible, Portland Zine Symposium, and London Zine Symposium. So join them for accounts of UK zine culture, UK social centres, revolution, punk rock, anarchy and more.
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Concert | Works for violin and violincello by Martinů, Bach and Paganini


Program: B. Martinů (1890-1959): Duo for Violin and Violoncello No. 2 in D major J. S. Bach (1685-1750): Suite No. 3 C major BWV 1009 A. Piatti (1822-1901): Caprice No. 7, Op. 25 J. S. Bach: Ciaconna from Partita d minor, BWV 1004 N. Paganini (1782-1840): Caprice No. 11, Op. 1 B. Martinů: Duo for Violin and Violoncello No. 1 With: Tomas Jamnik, violincello; and Josef Spacek, violin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Yoga Class


With Laughing Lotus.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reads from his book Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts


This book explores the family trees of 12 of America's most recognizable citizens to demonstrate that where we come from profoundly and fundamentally informs who we are today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Robert Hass, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet


Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997.[1] He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Theater | Three Sisters Come and Go: Based on Chekov, Beckett and Kristeva


The Alchemical Theatre presents a tragicomedy that follows the lives of the three archetypal women of Chekhov's plays read through the lens of Beckett's comic take on the existential dilemma, and Julia Kristeva's insight regarding the transformation of despair and loss into joy and acceptance. Bound to living together, each of the sisters is comically obsessed with being the most unhappy of the group.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Discussion | Arts in Mind: Elegies for Our Lost Asylums


A conversation series with top artists ranging across the literary, visual, multi-media and performing arts whose work touches on mental health issues. This conversation is with Christopher Payne and Anna Schuleit. Payne is a photographer based in New York City specializing in the documentation of American's vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, which includes an essay by Oliver Sacks, is the result of a seven-year exploration of American's vast and largely abandoned state mental institutions. Anna Schuleit is a visual artist who studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design whose early, large-scale installation projects revolved around psychiatric institutions: Habeas Corpus (2000) at Northampton State Hospital, and Bloom (2003) at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress: Sleepdance / Jane Gabriels / Ali Schecter / Isabel Nares


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where they will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Master Class | Jazz Guitarist Adam Rogers


Continuing to foster a dialogue between the music world’s most significant and inspired artists and students from the Jazz Studies Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Talk | Artist Carlos Motta talks about his work


Motta is a Colombian-born, New York based artist who works primarily in photography and video installation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:10 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: In Quietness by Anna Moench


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
$10 suggested donation...

Performance | A Flawed Pursuit of Happiness


Tim Warner is one of the most brutally honest and vulnerable comedians working today. His material scrutinizes the outside world by sharing all the mistakes he has made in life. While focusing on his flaws, he breaks down the fourth wall and connects with audiences cautiously exposing his hope for humanity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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