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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 12, 2012?

51 free events take place on Wednesday, September 12 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 12 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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51 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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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

Park Walk | Garden Tour: An Insider's Look


Horticulturists Eileen Calvanese and Jean Schwartz guide walkers through the “hot” gardens, featuring red, yellow and orange flowers, and “cool” gardens, featuring blue, purple and pink flowers of the park, designed by Lynden B. Miller. Many plants will be blooming and/or taking on fall colors. Late summer roses will also share the limelight. The tour is a wonderful opportunity to escape into nature in the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Concert | Noodlepalooza


Noodles and dumplings will be on the menu at Noodlepalooza, a multicultural food-sampling event featuring restaurants and caterers from the neighborhood and around New York City. Prestigious purveyors will provide sample-sized lunch dishes for $5 or less. Bring an appetite for a memorable lunch break.
   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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Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing in the parks and gardens with an artist/educator. Materials provided. For adults.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


Museum Ambassador Asia Tail gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Jazz | Daryl Sherman, Internationally Renowned Waldorf-Astoria Pianist


Equally at home in the world of jazz and cabaret, singer/pianist Daryl Sherman is internationally acclaimed for a stellar 14-year run at the Waldorf-Astoria where she played Cole Porter's Steinway. Sherman has performed at The Algonquin's Oak Room, being touted "someone who fits the room like Derek Jeter fits the Yankees" (Village Voice).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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

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 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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1:00 pm
$6

Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Featured Library Database: Lawhelp.org


Hands on using wireless laptops. Find information about your legal rights, housing, work, family, bankruptcy, disability, immigration law and other topics. Search for organizations that provide legal aid to low and moderate income New Yorkers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

Discussion | Senior Men’s Discussion Group


Open to All Seniors Over 60. Suggested Discussion Topics: 1. Introduce yourself – age, working or retired, likes and dislikes, where live, family situation, etc. 2. What would you like to do at this stage of your life? 3. In what activities would you like to participate? – write, draw, travel, sports, exercise, volunteer, etc. 4. How could your life be better now? 5. What makes you happy now? 6. What bothers you the most at this stage of your life? 7. Talk about your career and what you would have done differently, if anything. 8. Talk about health. 9. What strange adventure would you like to have? 10. What truth have you learned that you want to share? Other topics may be suggested and voted on. Group will be limited to about 10 participants. ALL DISCUSSIONS ARE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Moderator Howard Fischer asks that you phone him with some preliminary information.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Workshop | Figure al Fresco Drawing


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of Urban Fabric


Guest curator Andrew Dolkart will conduct a tour of the current exhibit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join us for a free Stay Well exercise session. 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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Film | Peter Jackson's Oscar Nominee The Lovely Bones (2009): Girl Looks On from Heaven


Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Weisz. Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. 135 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Against the Specialist: Contemporary References to Arnold Schoenberg in Image and Sound


5pm - Artists' Statements 6pm - Opening A modern-day appraisal of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg and his legacy forms the point of departure for the exhibition. The show presents a group of international contemporary artists working at the intersection between seeing and hearing, image and sound, and avant-garde and experimental practice. Artists: JOHN BRILL, DEPART, TINA FRANK/FLORIAN HECKER, ROBERT HOWSARE, RAINER KOHLBERGER, KURT KREN, CLAUDIA MÄRZENDORFER, GERALD MOSER/KONRAD BECKER. Curator: EVA FISCHER.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Megan Smolenyak discusses her book Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing!


How could brothers also be uncle and nephew? How did Facebook help solve an Egyptian genealogy case in just a week? And how did a pair of tombstones in Ohio point the way to Barack Obama's Irish roots? Join the renowned genealogist and speaker Megan Smolenyak as she reveals how she solved these and other baffling history mysteries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Zumba with Miriam


Zumba is a mixture of merengue, salsa, cha-cha, cumbia, reggaeton dance mixed with exercise conducted by Miriam. Zumba provides an effective total workout where you can lose body fat, gain muscle, improve posture, alignment and balance and feel more energetic! Participants should wear loose clothing or shorts and sneakers. Miriam is a Zumba certified instructor, AFFA group class instructor and ISSA personal trainer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Judy Fiskin: The End of Photography and Selected Photographs


A solo exhibition featuring a film and photographs by Judy Fiskin. This selection of Los Angeles-based Fiskin’s gelatin silver prints captures varied landscapes and vernacular architecture highlighting planned and unplanned symmetries, natural forms mirroring man-made, and anthropomorphic structures in several site-specific series. Informed by her study of art history, Fiskin’s attraction to her signature small-scale photography arose from looking and discovering works of art through reproductions. Judy Fiskin was born in Chicago, IL and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her B.A. from Pomona College and her M.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. Fiskin’s work was included in several of the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions including In Focus: Los Angeles 1945-1980, J. Paul Getty Museum (2011-12) and Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011). Fiskin’s work is included in many museum collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Recess


House Team members take a break from the norm. Come and watch as they play and explore new forms during recess.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Ruptures: Forms of Public Address


An exhibition exploring activism and free speech through the works of an impressive and diverse range of artists Situated within the context of the upcoming US elections and the one-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Ruptures explores the urgency, promise, and fragility of public and fearless speech within the aftermath of the 2010-11 demonstrations that erupted worldwide in city streets, university campuses, and urban centers. The show features a diverse group of artists including Cooper Union Professors Doug Ashford and Sharon Hayes, along with Ida Applebroog, Mircea Cantor, Theo Ellsworth & Caleb Monroe, Ganzeer, Igor Grubic, Iman Issa, Will Kwan, Antoni Muntadas, REPOcommons, REPOhistory, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lincoln Tobier, Liu Wei, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Unrest


The intersection between creative practice and political activism is longstanding. Unrest presents an international group of contemporary artists who tackle issues of inequality, conflict, and instability in recent history. The impetus for this exhibition begins with the wave of uprisings in Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, and Morocco—to name a few of the Arab Spring revolutions— and extends to the heterogeneous growth of the Occupy Wall Street movements, which permeated and inflected streets, offices, schools, and cultural centers across the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Installation: Teresita Fernández's Night Writing


In her fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, Teresita Fernández creates works that evoke the dramatic and universal experience of looking at the night sky. The exhibition consists of a single, large-scale installation built on site in the soaring double-height space of the gallery. Made up of thousands of translucent, colored layers of polycarbonate, the hovering form becomes a sculptural painting, filtering the natural light in the space to create a color field reminiscent of the aurora borealis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Creating a Self-Help Toolkit for Sustaining a Relevant and Reverent Way of Life


With Mama Donna Henes. In this class the renowned urban shaman, Donna Henes, will share highly practical spiritual tools we can use to help us keep our sanity and good cheer during stress and chaos; rituals to direct our goals, remove energies that drain us; and blessing ceremonies to attract prosperity, we can learn to meet our daily life with wisdom and equanimity. Drawn from a wide range of multicultural ritual traditions, these Spirit Support Skills™ will give us the ability to envision and execute effective solutions to difficult situations. much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Exercise as Medicine: Qigong, Yoga, and Dance-Based Practices for Enhanced Health and Vitality


Maureen Goss was trained in Soaring Crane Qigong by its originator, Zhao Jin Xiang, in 1988. Her experience was profound and helped to heal the allergies she suffered from since childhood. Drawing from her extensive training in dance and yoga, she added dance warm-ups and gentle yoga-based stretching as she taught qigong over the years and noticed that her students experienced "qi" and felt the health benefits of the practice more quickly. In this fun and inspiring class, Goss will teach gentle dance warm-ups and yoga stretches rooted in qigong exercises designed to calm the mind, lift the spirit and get the qi and blood flowing freely throughout the body. We will also learn some basic Chinese medical theories to understand how and why this unique form of exercise is effective. Wear loose and comfortable clothes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Julio Valdez's Nature: Prints, Drawings and Mixed Media


Curated by Graciela Kartofel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Other | Manhattan Plaza Project


This event marks the launch of the web site that documents the history of the social work programs at Manhattan Plaza, which have been shaping and supporting residents’ lives for four decades. The site’s four video segments and text showcase the groundbreaking program of social supports that has been part of Manhattan Plaza since its debut as a residence for performing artists and community residents in the early 1980s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Masterworks of the Gutai Art Association


After World War II, a devastated Japan processed the impact of the atomic bomb and faced a cultural void. It was in this atmosphere of existential alienation that the Gutai Art Association (Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai) – a group of about twenty young artists, rallying around the charismatic painter Jiro Yoshihara – emerged in the mid-1950s to challenge convention.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting: Benoit Bussiere's I Love You


Benoit Bussiere is a self-taught artist and has been exhibiting his work since 1987. He has lived in Canada, Africa, France and his father first introduced him to painting while he was working in his studio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photo-Derived Paintings: Peter Scott's Pardon Our Disappearance, Part One


While photography is normally tasked with "capturing" its subject, the images in the photographically derived paintings in Pardon Our Disappearance, Part One seem to perpetually "come and go." Painted on the reverse of raw cotton, the front side of the canvas appears blank. While a closer look gradually reveals a face, the residual image resists a fixed definition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Playwright Richard Foreman in Discussion


Avant-garde playwright and director Richard Foreman is joined in conversation by 2012 Whitney Biennial curator and faculty member Jay Sanders and philosopher and MA Critical Theory and the Arts Department Chair Robert Hullot-Kentor to discuss the preparations for his upcoming play Old Time Prostitutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Posters: Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom


An exhibition responding to current political turmoil in Russia through the language of the poster. The original posters were created in support of the popular Russian movement for democracy that emerged at the third-term election of President Vladimir Putin. The exhibition is comprised of work from 30 artists and designers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Rethinking the “Latino Vote” in 2012: Political Heterogeneity in a Two-Party System


The current election cycle brings a political paradox to light: How can Latino voters be both “swing voters” and a cohesive ethnic electorate with a shared policy agenda? Cristina Beltrán analyzes the rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric and explains how xenophobic speech and policies create forms of pan-ethnic solidarity that obscure ongoing ideological differences and political diversity among Latinos. Beltrán is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at NYU and the author of the award-winning The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Volleyball After Work


Summer’s here! Time to play! Leave your workday behind and join other adults for good-natured, fun, and cooperative pick-up games of volleyball. Everyone gets to play! Participants can also learn the basic rules and strategies of volleyball. Scorekeeper and volleyballs are provided. No experience is necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Soviet Union and the Yom Kippur War of 1973: New Sources and Insights


A talk by Professor Galia Golan-Gild, Lauder School of Government, Policy and Diplomacy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC).
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:15 pm
Free

Other | 40's+ Group Kick-Off Event


This group will provide a variety of social experiences including dining out, dating tips, cooking, trips and more. Help create an environment which offers support, resources, and the richness of community. Pizza and drinks will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Coney Island 40 Years


With Harvey Stein, a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator. In this visual presentation, the veteran photographer turns his lens on Coney Island and documents the changes in the iconic location over the past few decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Well-Known Jazz Critic Stanley Crouch in Conversation


Stanley Crouch is a columnist for the New York Daily News. As a jazz critic and a critic of America, his books include Notes of a Hanging Judge, The Artificial White Man, The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race, and the novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome. The first part of his two-volume biography of Charlie Parker will be published later this fall. Moderated by Greil Marcus as a part of his course "Old Weird America: Music as Democratic Speech."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Yoga - Evening Salute to the Sun


End your day with relaxing Hatha yoga in a beautiful sunset setting. Suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Artist Lecture: Mariam Ghani


Mariam Ghani's practice operates at the intersection of place, memory, history, language, loss, and reconstruction. She has been awarded the NYFA and Soros Fellowships, grants from the Graham Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Experimental Television Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Erin McHugh reads from her book One Good Deed


A smart and inspiring chronicle of a year when author Erin McHugh tried to reclaim the better part of herself, with the hope of inspiring others to do the same.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Justin Torres reads from his book We the Animals


Justin Torres makes a rare New York appearance to read from and sign copies of his acclaimed novel about family and alienation, We the Animals, now in paperback. Torres will be in conversation with Lambda Literary Award winner Stacey D'Erasmo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jackson Mac Low 90th Birthday Celebration and Book Party


anspace Project and The Poetry Project celebrate Jackson Mac Low, poet, Fluxus artist, and advocate for nonviolence, who would have turned 90 on September 12, 2012. In recognition of the release of his seminal work, 154 FORTIES, edited by Anne Tardos, (Counterpath Press, 2012), Danspace Project and The Poetry Project host a reading from this collection, followed by a reception. Readers include Kenny Goldsmith, Joan Retallack, James Sherry, Anne Tardos, Anne Waldman, and others to be announced.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | The K-Hole Comedy Show


Out-of-body experiences, feelings of derealization, vivid hallucinations and near-death experiences are all possible side effects of attending this comedy show! Come trip out with your hosts Leah Bonnema and Jessimae Peluso along with a few of their fellow comedians and a special musical guest in The K-Hole Comedy Show. Your soul deserves a good existential-laugh!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy :Improdome


Stretch your improv muscles in the longest running free improv jam in New York! Hosted by the duo of Julia Morales and Oscar Montoya.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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