Date: Friday, August 1st Time: 5:30pm Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave) Cost: Free with Museum Admission and RSVP
On top of the Koons exhibit already on display, the college group at the Met invites you to a whimsical evening of toys blown up to fantastic proportions and pianos the size of football fields. Stretch your perception of reality with the Metropolitan Museum's installation of sculptures by artist Jeff Koons on the Museum's roof and a screening of Dr. Seuss' only live-action feature film, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. You don't need a college ID, but priority seating will be given to college students. The event is free with museum admission, which they will tell you is $20, but last we checked it was just a suggested donation.
Date: Friday, August 1st Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm Location: 1125 Grand Concourse (at McClellan Street, Bronx) Cost: Free
"In collaboration with the African Film Festival and Afrokinetic, The Bronx Museum presents an exciting First Fridays! program of outdoor film screenings and live performances. Music by DJ Chris Annibell (Afrokinetic) and live performance by Michael Markus with Magbana Drum & Dance. Films being screened are: 'The Girl Who Sold the Sun' (Djibril Diop Mambety Senegal/Switzerland, 1999, 45m.) and 'Mambety' (Papa Madieya Mbaye, Senegal, 2002, 28m.)"
Date: Friday, August 1st Time: 7:00pm Location: South Street Seaport, Pier 17 (Fulton St & East River) Cost: Free
With his sharp, insight filled lyrics and soul sampled, head nodding beats, Minneapolis Rhyme Spitter Brother Ali brings a bit of hip hop to the seaport tonight. He's joined by Brooklyn's own party rockers, and FreeNYC favorites, The Rub. All Ages.
Date: Friday, August 1st Time: 7:00pm Location: Prospect Park Bandshell (9th St & Prospect Park West, Park Slope) Cost: Free
Three of Chaplin’s greatest shorts—The Rink (1916), The Immigrant (1916), and The Adventurer (1917)—will come alive as never before with new scores by the highly sought after UK based composer Carl Davis (London Philharmonic Orchestra), performed live by the dashing 16-piece pickup NY chamber orchestra The Knights. Brooklyn born Davis returns home to conduct. With the charming local violinist and singer Christina Courtin, whose fearless delivery recalls 'performers as diverse as Janis Joplin and Antony.' (Time Out) All Ages.
Date: Friday, August 1st Time: Dusk (around 8 or 8:30) Location: Pier 46 (Charles St. and the Hudson River) Cost: Free
The folks over at Hudson River Park keep calling this River Flicks for Kids, but we're really into a bunch of these movies, so either the films are also for grown ups, or we're just into kid stuff. Tonight's kid flick is the Iron Giant. Besides getting to watch movies outside on beautiful summer nights on the Hudson River, the other thing I like about River Flicks is that the popcorn is always free. Seating is first come, first served, so you and your little ones may want to show up early.
Date: Friday, August 1st & Saturday, August 2nd Time: 8:30pm & 8:00pm respectively Location: Triangulo (135 West 20th, #301 btw 6th and 7th Ave) Cost: Free
What do I love more than a dance class? A free dance class! For those of you not dressing up and boozing tonight check out a free absolute beginner workshop in Argentine tango. "Featured in Vogue, the National Herald Tribune, and The Economist, TriANGulO specializes in Argentine tango, the original, more intimate predecessor to international ballroom-style tango. Founder Carina Moeller is a professional dancer with training in modern dance and ballet who has worked and studied with such tango greats as Fabian Salas, Pablo Veron, and Mingo Pugliese. Known for her engaging and precise teaching style, Carina creates a stress-free atmosphere that is particularly appealing to novice dancers."
Date: Friday, August 1st Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Summerstage, Central Park - Directions Cost: Free
DanceBrazil, at the suggestion of the late Alvin Ailey, was founded in 1977 by choreographer Jelon Vieira, who is widely credited for introducing Afro-Brazilian dance and Capoeira to the US. Today, the company’s mission is to create dances inspired by Mr. Vieira’s love and understanding of his native Bahia, which have the capacity to further the development and understanding of Brazilian/Afro-Brazilian based culture. The evening will feature a performance of “Ritmos”, Mr. Vieira’s homage to Capoeira. Max Pollak inventively melds Latin rhythms, jazz, tap dance, and body percussion to create RumbaTap, a company comprised of a multi-talented, international cast. Pollak, named one of “25 to Watch in 2007” by Dance Magazine, is also responsible for conceiving the first-ever tap festival in Cuba. RumbaTap has been performed, taught and exhibited all over the world.
Date: Friday, August 1st Time: 9:00pm Location: Rehab (25 Ave B) Cost: Free with RSVP; $5 with out Open Bar: Vodka 10:00pm - 11:00pm
The Pull-Out Method is boasting "a real find" tonight in VDRK and Bradley D, boasting "DJs that can actually mix. Clearly, those Pull-Out dudes have been spending too much time listening to DJs in bars and not in clubs if they think seemless mixing is a lost art these days. Asides... err... aside, both bring GHB style electro for the masses your way tonight. To top it off, Mira Stroika (11:30 PM) and Fresh Air Kids (12:30 AM) playing live downstairs. And as always, free vodka from 10 - 11 PM. 21+
