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The annual outdoor Earth Day events this April 22nd, are moving to Union Square this year! The events will include live performances, a green-vehicle runway and exhibition, and exhibits and displays by local and national environmental organizations and local businesses.

 

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Funny and provocative, the married comedy couple of Epstein and Hassan reveal their personal yet surprisingly universal insights into race, relationships, sex, politics and more on Friday, May 3rd. It's a raunchy, but also heartwarming, comedy show with stylistic nods to the edgy likes of Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. 

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DCTV and the NYFVC are proud to host an evening of documentaries coming straight out of last fall's Hurricane Sandy on Thursday, May 2nd.  Featuring live footage taken on the ground from those within the storm, this curation of cell-phone cinema as well as home videos and sound recordings will allow us as viewers to collectively reframe and process an event that greatly impacted and affected our beloved city, seeing how citizen-journalism and community-generated content can be some of the most engaging forms of storytelling. 

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The Conference is dedicated to the exploration of Untapped Capital. It will focus on four areas where Untapped Capital can be found and put to productive use: Ad Hoc Strategies, Waste, Play, and Youth. Each topic will be discussed, questioned, and analyzed by a moderated panel of experts and innovators. The Conference commences on May 1st with a keynote address by Joi Ito.

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McNally Jackson and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe are collaborating on the inaugural Downtown Literary Festival (DLF), a daylong celebration of the literary culture of New York City. The festival will take place at both bookstores simultaneously throughout the day on Sunday, April 14, followed by a happy hour mingle at Housing Works Bookstore and an after-party at Pravda, featuring Russian literature–themed cocktails. Why a Downtown Literary Festival?

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Ever wondered what it would be like to be in the movies? The annual Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair on April 27th, will include the new Tribeca Studios Backlot, which will transform a downtown street into an interactive movie set where visitors can explore a wide range of elements that go into producing a film on location in New York City. As is tradition, the Street Fair will also include standard live Broadway performances, arts and crafts activities, and puppet shows. 

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"Wilder Mann," an exhibition of color photographs by Charles Fréger will be on  Between 2010 and 2011, Charles Fréger traveled to eighteen European countries, from Italy to Poland, Scotland to the Czech Republic, in search of the Wild Man. A centuries-old, legendary figure, the Wild Man continues to be an important symbol of transition associated with festivals that mark the cyclical patterns of life: the changing of the seasons, special religious holidays, rites of passage, life and death. 

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Join Fred for a celebration of his life and work with the launch of a major critical anthology, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho and a screening of Diary of The Dragon: The (R)evolution of Fred Ho, a documentary film that spans his early family life, tumultuous personal relationships, groundbreaking musical career and infamous revolutionary ideologies and praxis on April 25th. The film features rare, exclusive footage, photos and candid interviews with a man poised to become one of the great contemporary treasures of our time

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In this body of work, on view through May 4th, McDonough leaves behind his main stomping grounds, the streets of New York City, and sets out on the road, traveling throughout the United States during the summer months of the 1970s and early 80s.

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Another Life, playing through April 21st, puts the roller-coast ride of this past decade on the stage—from the attacks of 9/11, to the brutalities of our torture programs, and the economic crash of 2008. The play, written in a fast-paced lyric language by Karen Malpede, is based on research, interviews, testimonies, the words of torturers and tortured, and has been widely praised by experts in the field of human rights, for its inventiveness, power and ability to create empathy.

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