World Laughter Day

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Date: Sunday, May 4th
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Great Hill, Central Park (enter 106th and Central Park West)
Cost: Free

Laugh for World Peace on the Great Hill in Central Park this afternoon. "Bring friends and family and come celebrate with us the World Laughter Yoga Movement! Generate Endorphins, have a great time, and disperse the darkness with the light of Laughter. Escola de samba BOOM will be there to help make World Laughter Day NYC 2008 the best one yet!" All Ages

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7th Annual NYC Irish Dance Festival

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Date: Sunday, May 4th
Time: 1:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Pier I, Riverside Park South (70th St & Hudson River)
Cost: Free

"Experience Irish dance and music first hand at the Irish Arts Center's 7th annual celebration featuring traditional Irish music and performances by stars of the Irish dance world and students from NY area dance schools. Join in on the fun with live music, master workshops in traditional Irish dance, a Singers Circle, Irish language classes, face-painting and more!" All Ages.

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Thomas Pynchon Birthday Bash

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Date: Sunday, May 4th
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Freebird Bookstore (123 Columbia St btw Kane & Degraw, Red Hook)
Cost: Free

Great American literary cipher Thomas Pynchon turns 71 today and the folks over at Freebird Books are celebrating with a backyard barbeque and fax-a-thon... " We'll dine on foodstuffs famously vomited by Gravity's Rainbow's Tyrone Slothrop: burgers, homefries, chef's salad with French dressing, Moxie, after-dinner mints, Clark bars, salted peanuts, and 'the cherry from some Radcliffe girl's old-fashioned.' And yes, we'll be faxing birthday greetings to the great elusive one via the miracle of outmoded technology. One fax per customer, please. Please check your Kakutani hate mail at the door." Plus a screening and a giveaway. (assuming) all ages.

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Attack of the Fancy Clip Party

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Date: Sunday, May 4th
Time: 8:00pm - Midnight
Location: Barrette (601 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

"Are you a TV junkie tired of the junk on TV? Then the Fancy Clip Party is for you! Come see another mind melting mixture of rare music video, obscure movie trailers, lost & now found footage and snippets from the most banal corners of the collective unconscious. Every clip party is unique as we strive to show new footage each time, and that's not easy when you're talking about... hours of outrageous obscure unbelievable jaw-dropping vintage video from the crew at Jolly Roger DV Archive, FANCY, and Reel Horror Show Production"

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The Return of Real Life Movie House

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Date: Sunday, May 4th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th St, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Or the return for us at least... RLMH has been off our radar for a while but now they are back screening some great movies for your Sunday afternoon. This week they present "two films about ordinary New Yorkers doing extraordinary things. Come see Spike Lee's Brooklyn masterpiece Do The Right Thing or experience the tragic and hopeful story of the underground homeless community of Dark Day.Before the features watch the brilliant short films of Lauren Kritzer and Robert Castillo. Kritzer investigates a day in the live of NYC's can collectors, while Castillo animates the adventures of growing up Latino in the five boroughs." 21+

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