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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 14, 2014?

37 free events take place on Friday, November 14 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 November 14 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 November . 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 14, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Sexuality and Textuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante
free events nyc Walter Isaacson discusses his book The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
free events nyc The Washington Square Music Festival String Ensemble performs works by Bach, Ockeghem, Schnittke
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Creative Time Summit: Digital Labor


Building on five successful Summits in New York City, Creative Time is collaborating with the Public Art Agency Sweden to bring this year's Summit on art and social justice to Stockholm. The center is the New York hub for screenings of the Summit and is providing additional live programming. Among them is a special response panel to the theme "Art in the Age of Surveillance," crossing Summit themes with the school conference Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines and Barricades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Concert | The Shakuhachi: An Expression of Japanese Music & Culture


With guest presenter James Nyoraku Schlefer, a performer and teacher and composer of shakuhachi in New York City. The shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Dance Performance | 2014 Dance Studio Showings


2014 Resident Artists offer a rare glimpse into the creative process, presenting work-in-progress public showings of the projects they are developing. 10:30AM: Silas Riener and Adrian Danchig-Waring / Dance Project: An exploration of new ideas in ballet and modern dance, hosted in association with Danspace Project's Platform 2015 Residency 11:30AM: Terrence O'Brien / Theater Project: Popular Mechanics, a work exploring ways in which ritualistic human sacrifice is represented in theater today 12:30PM: Peter Zummo and Ernie Brooks / Music and Poetry Project: A collaboration with poet Paolo Javier, developing open form compositions with lyrics and instrumentals inspired by Arthur Russell and other downtown New York musicians of the 1970s 1:30PM: Jim Findlay / Theater and Multimedia Project: Vine of the Dead (VOD), a visual art performance that attempts to communicate across the divide between life and death
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling 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. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


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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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Knowing George Eliot


George Eliot: Ethicist. Philosopher. Therapist? From Virginia Woolf’s pronouncement that Middlemarch is “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people” to Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch, the author George Eliot has staked a uniquely intimate claim in the lives of her readers, as if she understood the human condition better, more carefully, and more sympathetically than anyone else. With: Nicholas Dames, the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University; David Kurnick, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University; Deborah Nord, Professor of English at Princeton University; and Wendy Anne Lee, Assistant Professor in the English Department at New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go (2010): Clones in Love


With Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Charlotte Rampling. A love triangle develops between three friends who came of age at a mysterious, secluded boarding school and are destined to lead brief lives. 104 Minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Talk | 'I always read the label': Managing Risk through Precautionary Consumption


With Norah MacKendrick, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University. Shopping for food has become increasingly complex as consumers decipher product labels with multiple claims, such as “certified organic”, “100% Natural” and “BPA-free packaging.” In this talk, Norah MacKendrick discusses the phenomenon of “precautionary consumption” — the attempt to avoid potentially harmful ingredients through careful consumer practices. Drawing on semi-structured interviews undertaken in New York and Toronto, she explores how mothers, as the primary shoppers for the family, navigate the complexities of a consumer landscape awash in labels promising that foods are safe and wholesome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Marimba Master Class: She-e Wu


She-e Wu has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Symphony Center, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series in Pearlman Hall at the Kimmel Center. Wu has performed as guest recitalist and clinician at universities, colleges, and conservatories in France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, England, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Greece, Japan, and Korea, as well as American music institutions and numerous PAS Days of Percussion throughout the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Master Class | Vocal Master Class: Evan Mack


Featuring Evan Mack, this special event provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and great artists as they examine and explore the arts of performance on the highest level.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Author Reading | Fiction Reading: Charles D’ambrosio / Darcey Steinke


Charles D’ambrosio has published two collections of short stories, “The Point,” a New York Times Notable Book, and “The Dead Fish Museum,” as well as “Orphans,” a collection of essays. Darcey Steinke is the author of five novels and a memoir, “Easter Everywhere,” which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. D’ambrosio’s latest title, “Loitering: New and Selected Essays,” and Steinke’s new novel, “Sister Golden Hair,” are both new from Tin House in fall 2014.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Keynote for Mac Workshop


Get acquainted with Apple's powerful presentation software that gives you everything you need to create slideshows and videos that look dazzling, bring your ideas to life, and let you work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices, as well as with colleagues, friends, and family who use Microsoft PowerPoint.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 pm: Anthony Mulcahy - Irish singer-songwriter 6:05 pm: Steph Allen - Stripped-down country folk 6:40 pm: Chris Mills - Americana-tinged pop
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Moby-Dick Marathon NYC


Following the tremendously successful inaugural event in 2012 and a Kickstarter campaign this summer, the Moby-Dick Marathon NYC returns next month for a three-day marathon-style reading of Herman Melville’s epic novel. Over 150 readers — including Touré, Jami Attenberg, Phil Klay, Téa Obreht, Nathaniel Philbrick, Lynne Tillman, Alex Karpovsky, Matt Kish, and many more — will each read a ten-minute section of the novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Vagabond Art by Chungpo Tsering


Chungpo Tsering, born in 1979, studied at the TCV school in Dharamsala, India.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: A Wicked Problem


For A Wicked Problem, artists and curators were called upon to dispose with all practical limitations and envision the most audacious, outrageous, and impossible exhibition. Fourteen of those proposals are partially realized in this show, and were selected by jurors Larissa Harris (Queens Museum), Naima Keith (Studio Museum Harlem), Prem Krishnamurthy (P! and Projects Projects), and David Senior (MoMA Library). Participants: Emily Baierl, Greta Byrum and Annabel Daou, Hank Ehrenfried, Caitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich, Katya Grohkovsky, Oree Holban, Antony Hudek, Felix Kalmenson, Audra Lambert, Clarinda Mac Low, Jen Ogburyk, Beth Reitmeyer, Emily Thomas, and Anuj Vaidya.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Sexuality and Textuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante


A lecture by Manuele Gragnolati (University of Oxford). Focussing on the connection between textuality, subjectivity and politics, this talk explores analogies and differences in the late works by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante. The aesthetics of both authors resists linearity and allows for the articulation of paradoxical pleasures that cannot be inscribed in a normative logics of development, conversion, or productivity. In this sense the late texts by Pasolini and Morante deploy a political aesthetics that replicates a queer form of sexuality, but while Pasolini enacts self-shattering and oblivion, Morante embraces inversion, fluidity and memory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Performance | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


With Luke Thayer (MTV.com), Eric Neumann (Sirius XM Radio) and illusionist Lee Alan Barrett.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Walter Isaacson discusses his book The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution


Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Tour | World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial Tour


On this tour, you not only learn about some of the most significant acts of heroism and the people who sacrificed their lives to save others, but you also discover the history of the World Trade Center, starting with the strategies in the 1950s that were put in place to build it, how it was designed, constructed, how it came down, and the new buildings that are redefining the center today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Amanda Palmer reads from her book The Art of Asking


Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Art by Yasmina Reza


Donation includes beverages and snack.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Industry Night Comedy Show


Jeff Cerulli invites some of his favorites comedians to perform in an intimate venue on a show that has industrial strength. This month features: Amanda Baramki (Comics trip) Kase Raso (carolines) Kyle Ocasio (Axs Live at Gotham) Scott Rogowski (Running Late)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | A Celebration of Pianist-Composer David Burge


As a performer, David Burge was noted for championing contemporary pieces. The New York Times called him "one of America’s important pianists," and his concerts were described as "an overwhelming experience" (Washington Post) presenting "masterful artistry" (Baltimore Sun). He died in 2013. Featuring the pianists of NYU Steinhardt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Clarinet Recital


Kristina Teuschler, clarinet
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Hulda Jonsdottir, Violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The Washington Square Music Festival String Ensemble performs works by Bach, Ockeghem, Schnittke


Program: Johannes Ockeghem: Instrumental Motet Johann Sebastian Bach: Double Concerto for two violins Mayuki Fukuhara and Eriko Sato, soloists Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for piano and strings David Oei, soloist Bach: Shepherd Symphony from Christmas Oratorio Lutz Rath, conductor
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Jazz | West Point Jazz Knights


Boasting some of America’s most accomplished musicians (past and present members have performed with the likes of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra), this top-flight jazz ensemble from America’s preeminent military academy performs big band standards and originals in a range of styles from swing to modern with thrilling finesse. Taking center stage is acclaimed singer Alexis Cole, whom WNYC has called “one of the great voices of today.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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Film | Special Midnight Screening: Chris Moukarbel’s Banksy Does New York (2014)


Banksy Does New York is a user-generated chronicle of the 31 days the famed street artist took over New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:59 pm
Free
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