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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 23, 2011?

49 free events take place on Friday, September 23 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 23 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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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 23, 2011

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Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute. He has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Conference | The Bottom Line on Climate Change


Fukushima has heated up the debate on the transition to renewable energy. Is green energy the answer to global warming, energy independence, and the prevention of Fukushima-like disasters? If so, will the switch kill jobs and raise taxes? Or will renewable energy create a green recovery? What is the bottom line? Leading U.S. & E.U. government officials, geoscientists, policy analysts, politicians, business leaders and academics will join in New York to discuss how transitioning to renewable energy will affect the fragile U.S. and global economies. Panels will focus on the future of nuclear power, the reality behind green jobs, the practicality of new technologies, and the tensions between developed and developing countries. Participants include Ottmar Edenhofer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, James Hansen from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Peter Schlosser from the Earth Institute at Columbia, Dr. Runge-Metzger from the EU Commission, and a member of the German parliament.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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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
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Festival | 2011 New York Motorexpo


A display of the latest vehicles from many of the world's leading automotive manufacturers. The 2011 New York Motorexpo is set to be the biggest in its history and will build on the success of last year's which saw vehicles from manufacturers including Aston Martin, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz to name just a few.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Other | 9/11: A Uniform Response, a Photography Exhibit Honoring the NYPD


To mark the 10th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, The Associated Press and the Museum have collaborated on an exhibition of 30 compelling photographs drawn from the AP archives. 9/11: A Uniform Response pays tribute to the New York City Police Department and all first responders, honoring their role on and after Sept. 11. Poignant images taken by award-winning AP photographers depict the morning of the attacks, the courageous response in the days and weeks afterward, the long road to recovery, and the building of 1 World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, the rising symbol of rebirth at Ground Zero. In addition, the show features a brief documentary film offering interviews with AP photographers represented in the exhibit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action


A conference in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, which began its mission of using research and knowledge to advance feminist scholarship and long-term partnerships with activist groups. Inspired by the new women’s movement, BCRW became part of an historic moment that witnessed the proliferation of feminist activism, the establishment of women’s studies programs and women’s centers, and the founding of women’s bookstores and other cultural projects. This fall brings together past, present and future collaborators as well as kindred institutions, scholars and activists engaged in social justice feminism to consider what kinds of collaborative projects are possible when scholarship and activism are joined.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Art Therapy Conference: The Artistic Drive


Guest speakers Laurie Wilson, PhD, and Randy Vick, ATR-BC, LCPC, will address how the artist’s urge to create manifests in “outsider art,” fine art and art therapy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Talk | Learn about the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | MS Word 3 Workshop


Having been introduced to styles and controlling formatting, this workshop will expand on modifying, creating and deleting styles, using tables to format a document and inserting headers and footers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only. Join the fun and meet new friends.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Computer Help Lab


Do you need help using your laptop computer? Have you searched for a place that offers tutoring services only to discover the cost was to high? This is an informal class where anyone can bring their laptop or other computer device and receive help. If you don't own a laptop, the library can provide you with one for the class. Take this opportunity to get professional assistance from knowledgeable staff that can answer your computer questions and get you on the fast track to using your laptop with confidence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Getting More Out of Cloud Storage


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Uploading photos to Facebook? Storing documents in Google Docs? Streaming movies from Netflix? Understand what it means to store data in and access content from the Internet “cloud,” and explore its pros and cons.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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11:00 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

Other | Open Studios


Meet the gallery's artists and see what they're working on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

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
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Workshop | Ping Pong in the Park


Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge to all skill levels. Sign up with an attendant in the park to play.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 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" 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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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
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Concert | Dan Manjovi, Award-Winning Pianist


Dan Manjovi is an award-winning musician and composer, and a New York favorite. His song "Somethin's Comin' My Way" is featured in the film and soundtrack to the 2009 Oscar-winning film Precious. As a solo artist singer/songwriter, he has released two solo albums, Dan Manjovi (2005), and Woke Up This Morning (2008). His current project is an original musical, I Am I Will I Do, for which he has written book, music, and lyrics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


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


Enjoy a taste of Paris in the park at lunchtime with musette style accordion music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Advanced MS Word Workshop


Learn to create documents and reports using this word processing program. Topics include: mail merge, tables, text boxes, headers & footers, footnotes & endnotes, etc. Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite. This is the first of a two-session workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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: Mother Earth in Crisis | Elders’ Wisdom


With: Elderly Words: Who’s Threatening the Water?, Elderly Words: How Did We Do Elderly Words? and Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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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
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Film | Lodge Kerrigan's Claire Dolan (1998): Escape to a New Life


With Vincent D'Onofrio and Colm Meaney. A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby. The steps that she takes to free herself from her pimp and find a father for the baby are the central story of this movie. 95 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Talujon Percussion Quartet Master Class


Featuring "Cage at 100 and Talujon at 20."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (1966): Criminal and Victim


With Donald Pleasence and Jacqueline Bisset. In one of the blackest of dark comedies, Polanski’s take on the then-fashionable Theater of the Absurd meshes with his overriding theme of menace. 111 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: PressDisplay


Hands on using wireless laptops. Browse the current headlines from over 1700 local and international newspapers, read complete issues in full-color, full-page format, or search for individual news stories. Newspapers from 92 countries published in 48 languages are available.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
Free

Concert | Free Music Fridays


Featuring John Schmitt, Greg Thomas and Sweet Soubrette.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Jazz | Charlie Parker Jazz Festival: Kenny Werner / James Carter / Tia Fuller / Gerald Clayton Trio


Hurricane Irene forced the postponement of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival which was originally scheduled for Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28. This is the new date for the festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Walking Forward–Running Past


In his 1971 video, "Walking Forward–Running Past," John Baldessari utilizes sequence, repetition, and montage to deconstruct the notion of cinematic chronology. Exploring the visceral and tactile relationship between the image, imaged, and viewer, Baldessari uses the intersection of photography and video to disrupt and call attention to the notion of temporal awareness. Taking this work as its center, Walking Forward–Running Past presents a constellation of works that investigate our complicated and intricate relationship to chronology. The exhibition aims to capture the immediate past and the immediate future at the point where they collide, using its own framework as a way to reevaluate ideas of time and transformation. Walking Forward–Running Past embraces synchronicity, connection and serendipity, presenting a group of works that explore time's malleable form, and questioning the linear narrative conventionally measured as past, present, and future. Artists include John Baldessari, Paul Chan, Zoe Crosher, Catherine Czacki, Andrea Geyer, Tim Lee, Alison O'Daniel, robbinschilds, Will Rogan, and Kimberlee Venable.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Art²


Artists have been inspired by other artists and specific works of art since the beginning of art history. Art² will examine a very different phenomenon. The use of a specific and existing work of art inside the visual language of a new and original work of art. Whether as a literal transcription or as a launching pad to something new and different, these contemporary artists quote from artists ranging from those of their own generation to those who came decades and even centuries before. Shown: Hilary Harkness, "Girl with a Basket of Flowers," 8 1/2" by 11 1/2", oil/linen panel, 2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Thesis Screening


A presentation of films completed by students graduating from the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Festival | The 15th Annual DUMBO Arts Festival


The DUMBO Arts Festival returns to showcase local, national and international artwork amidst the spectacular backdrop of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and the New York City skyline. The multidisciplinary Festival will include visual and performance art, open studios, music and literature, family programming and more. The Festival will present artwork in DUMBO studios, galleries, storefronts, performances venues, parks and even on the East River. Multimedia performances, which will include projected videos onto DUMBO's bridges and buildings, make the DUMBO Arts Festival a "must-attend" fall event. Visitors can meet and interact with artists working in their studios or making murals on the streets, participate in literary events and listen to music of many different genres. The Festival will feature free programming for children of all ages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Reading | Urban Mirrors: New York, New York (and Brooklyn and the Bronx)


A reading and conversation with National Book Critics Circle Award finalists and winners in prose whose work reflects their lives in the New York metropolitan area. With David Hadju, author of the NBCC Award finalists Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña; Darin Strauss, novelist and author of Half a Life, winner of the NBCC Award in Autobiography; and Lynne Tillman, novelist, essayist, and author of the short story collection Someday This Will Be Funny and of No Lease on Life, NBCC Award finalist in Fiction. Moderated by Jane Ciabattari, NBCC vice president and former NBCC president (2008–2011).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dance Performance | 2011 Dumbo Dance Festival


WHITE WAVE presents its 11th Annual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, a three-day showcase of innovative contemporary dance featuring both emerging and established dancemakers. This year’s Festival presents 113 companies with 400 performing artists from throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and Korea. Designed to be interdisciplinary, these pieces are collaborations between choreographers, composers, live musicians, film and video artists and fashion/costume designers. Show times are at 7pm, 8pm and 9pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Reading | 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards Reading


The Rona Jaffe Foundation provides support to women writers in the early stages of their careers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Brady Bunch actress Florence Henderson signs copies of her book Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond


Henderson talks candidly about her memoir and her fascinating journey from childhood to stardom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Afterlife


ARTISTS: Michael Alan, Jean-Pierre Arboleda, Noah Becker, Alana Bograd, dNasaB, Jim D'Amato, Ewelina, Mark Garro, Joseph Grazi, Jenny Morgan, Jeremy Willis, and Justin Wood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Neal Stephenson discusses his book Reamde


The author of Anathem and the 'Baroque Cycle' talks about his latest novel, a genre-bending thriller involving gamers, hackers, Jihadists and spies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | No Name and A Bag O’ Chips Comedy/Variety Show


Now in its 12th year, the show will also feature the funky sounds of "No Name" house band The Summer Replacements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers, or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967): Horror Spoof


With Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. This hilarious spoof of Universal horror classics and F. W. Murnau’s great Nosferatu brought Polanski to Hollywood. 107 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | Spanish Cinema: Patxi Amezcúa's 25 Carat (2009)


The big city. The perfect environment for go-getters, swindlers, thieves, thugs, mafia members and corrupt policemen. Abel is a loner whose job is to collect payment from debtors using expeditious methods. Kay is a young girl who steals cars and does small-time robberies. Sebas, her father receives stolen goods and is always mixed-up in trouble, always in debt, always robbing Peter to pay Paul. Garro, an inspector from the Crime Squad of rather dubious honesty, some Kosovar robbers, some Mexican thugs, a Turkish hired assassin..... A real mixed fauna of delinquents in the asphalt jungle of the big city... All of them fed-up with the lives they lead. All of them hoping to do the last job, the big job... A bag full of jewels could be just what s needed. 86 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Also showing: - Videoclip: MENTIRAS, Tote King. Directed by Alberto Blanco (2006) and TODOS MORTALES, Ojos de Brujo. Directed by Alberto Blanco (2009) - Short: LA TAMA by Martín Costa (Spain | 2009 | 19 min.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Winning Short Films from the 2010 Morelia International Film Festival


The North American premiere of the Short Film Winners of the 2010 Morelia International Film Festival, whose estimable jury includes judges from the Sundance and Huesca Film Festivals, followed by a Q&A with the directors from Mexico.
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Screening | Documentary: Goran Hugo Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (2011)


Starting in 1967 a number of journalists for Swedish television sent film crews to the United States to interview major figures in the Black Panther Party and the larger Black Power movement. Olsson has used some of this archival footage as the basis for the documentary, which includes vintage interviews with Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, and Louis Farrakhan. The newsreels are accompanied by recent interviews with artists, activists, and cultural historians who discuss this period in American history, including Harry Belafonte, Abiodun Oyewole, Melvin Van Peebles, Erykah Badu, rapper Talib Kweli, and many others. 97 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Screening | Documentary: Pamela Tanner Boll & Nancy Kennedy's Who Does She Think She Is? (2008)


This documentary features five bold women who navigate some of the most problematic intersections of our time: parenting and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. Through their lives, the film explores what it means to nurture children and family, and keep the creative fire burning within. 73 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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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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