free things to do in New York City
| < | October 2016 |
> | ||||
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | |||||
Free Events, Free Things to Do in New York City! Read More
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 6, 2016?
69 free events take place on Thursday, October 6 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 October 6 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 October . 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 6, 2016?
69 free events take place on Thursday, October 6 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 October 6 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 October . 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.
Join the Club!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
69 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 6, 2016
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Tour | Alternative New York Tour
Time to learn about the other New York City; the city that nurtured political, cultural and intellectual revolutions. The city that gave birth to punk rock, the beat poets and graffiti. The city that has survived two centuries of mass riots, crime and corruption, murder and mayhem. The city that has flourished in spite of economic and social hardship. Thursdays.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats. Daily.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
City Walk | Half-Smiler Walk with Artist Helen Mirra
Helen Mirra’s (b. 1970, United States) artistic practice is contingent on the activity of walking. She proposes a series of morning walks open to everyone, cultivating the half-smile. Mirra begins the half-smiler walks by introducing the concept of equanimity as described in early Buddhist philosophy, and corresponding ideas about the everyday, somatics, and friendliness. After a brief orientation, participants will set out for a few hours, walking separately in space while together in time, and then meet again for convivial lunch. October 3–7 and 10–14, 2016.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
Discussion | The Future of Natural Gas in Europe
The Golden Age of natural gas, announced by the IEA only a couple of years ago, has not materialized in Europe to date. In the electricity sector, gas increasingly finds itself squeezed between cheap coal and subsidized renewable energy sources. Domestic production of natural gas is declining more rapidly than anticipated, chiefly due to the Dutch government’s decision to curtail production at the largest natural gas field in Europe, to mitigate frequent earth tremors reported from the area. Geopolitical concerns remain widespread in Europe about the dominant role of Russia in the continent’s natural gas supply mix, and the possibility that it might gain further market share in Europe over the medium-term. Yet the times are changing. It is broadly acknowledged that we are entering a period of oversupply in the global natural gas market, predominantly fueled by a massive ramp-up of exports of liquefied natural gas from Australia and the United States. Join the Center on Global Energy Policy as we bring together an expert panel to address these and other questions on the future of natural gas in Europe. Distinguished guests confirmed so far include:Dr. Pierre Noel, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Senior Fellow for Economic and Energy Security, based at IISS-Asia in Singapore Leslie Palti-Guzman, Director of Global Gas at The Rapidan Group and non-resident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy Dr. Tim Boersma, Program Director, Global Natural Gas Markets, Center on Global Energy Policy.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Photoshop for Beginners
Learn how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this class you learn the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to manipulate images to your desire. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:30 am
Free
Free
Tour | Water’s Edge Garden Tour
Located along the shoreline of the East River, the waterfront garden offers year-round beauty, from spring-blooming daffodils to winter-blooming Witch Hazel. Join an experienced member of the Horticulture Department and learn about the flowers growing along the water’s edge. Enjoy breathtaking views of Manhattan while you explore the winding paths of the shade garden.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
11:00 am
Free
Free
11:30 am
Free
Free
Discussion | Cuban Art Now!: The Practices of Collecting, Curating, and Archiving Cuban Art
The Department of Foreign Languages will host a roundtable discussion to discuss the practices of collecting, curating, and archiving Cuban art. Roundtable panelists include: Maria Cabrera Arus - Sociologist, fashion scholar & award-winning founder of CubaMaterial.com, holds a PhD from The New School for Social Research Sara Reisman - Artistic Director, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Hermes Mallea - MGroup Architects and author of several books Elvis Fuentes - PhD Candidate in Art History, Rutgers University, Mellon IDRF 2015-2016 Meyken Barreto - Regional Director, Artist Pension Trust. Curator and Independent Researcher Gabriel Vignoli - Cuba IFP Faculty Coordinator; Lecturer in International Affairs, The New School. PhD in Anthropology - The New School PhD in Latin American Studies - University of Calabria/Italy Moderated by Raul Rubio, Chair of Foreign Languages
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
12:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
12:20 pm
Free
Free
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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
$10 suggested donation
Concert | One of the last black string bands in the U.S. and singer/songwriter with unique pop-soul, jazz/folk sound
Najah Lewis, Singer Songwriter Najah Lewis performs once or twice a week on the subway platform. Her visibility and unique pop-soul, jazz/folk sound has helped her establish loyal supporters and friends. Lewis was the singer in a commercial for The Smithsonian, recently featured in Time Out Magazine, and VH1 and Jet Blue featured her as part of their "Save The Music" campaign and advertisement. The Ebony Hillbillies As one of the last black string bands in the U.S., the Ebony Hillbillies keep an important legacy alive with a rootsy, homegrown style played a key element in the genesis of much uniquely American music—jazz, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, rock and roll, and country. Bringing a fresh urgency to the genre, the ensemble creates an untamed and joyful vibe that echoes across the generations and transcends racial and cultural boundaries.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Retro Board Gaming for Adults
Share your passion for gaming the old-fashioned way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles keep you going, then Scrabble is your game. Are you a Chess or Checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | 2 Thrillers: Detour / Sherlock Homes and the Voice of Terror
Detour, 1945, 67 min., b&w, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Starring TOM NEAL, ANN SAVAGE, CLAUDIA DRAKE. - Hitchhiking nightclub performer runs into trouble with a mysterious death and a blackmailing woman. Sherlock Homes and the Voice of Terror, 1942, 65 min., b&w, directed by John Rawlins. Starring BASIL RATHBONE, NIGEL BRUCE, EVELYN ANKERS. - A Nazi saboteur predicts national depredations, via their radio “Voice of Terror.”
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Adobe Illustrator for Beginners
Learn the basics of Adobe's vector graphic creation program and how to create exciting digital art for print, video, and web Class is taught on Mac computers.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
City Walk | Greenwich Village, High Line and Chelsea Tour
Join a three-hour journey through some of New York City's most historic areas. They'll begin in Greenwich Village, one of the cultural centers of America. Once a pastoral green oasis, and later a home for Irish and Italian immigrants, Greenwich Village has been at the forefront of some of the most important political, social, and artistic movements of the 20th Century. Filled with 19th century townhouses, and now one of the most desirable and high priced neighborhoods in America, the Village tells a multi-generational New York story. From secluded wealthy enclave to emerging Bohemian and Beat communities, from Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan to the Stonewall Inn. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm and Sundays at 10am.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | King Vidor's War and Peace (1956): 3 Oscar Nods
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer. Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. 208 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs (2007): Repercussions of War
Stars: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford. Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. 91 minutes
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Borders and the Politics of Mourning
With more than 15,000 migrants dead and disappeared since 2014, the UNHCR has called migrant deaths at sea “the new normal”. Despite the proliferation of images and testimonies about the migration “crisis”, responsibility and accountability for the consequences of border regimes remains elusive, while thousands of migrant deaths around the world remain unnamed, invisible, and ungrievable. The launch event begins at 4pm with a panel discussion with authors Maurizio Albahari, Alexandra Délano, Jenny Edkins, Burkhard Liebsch, and Benjamin Nienass, followed by comments from Banu Bargu and Anne McNevin. Judith Butler will give the keynote address entitled “Grievability and Resistance” at 6pm.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
4:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Urban Works of Art New Photographs by Tjalf Sparnaay
Tjalf Sparnaay (born 1954 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is a Dutch artist, photographer, illustrator and painter. Sparnaay was educated to become a sports teacher and became a self-taught painter and amateur photographer from about 1980. He calls himself an artist and businessman.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:00 pm
Free
Free
Birdwatching | Falll Birding Tour
Go birding! Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided tours. The location is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow. Mondays and Thursdays throught October 20.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Book Discussion Group: Between the World and Me
Discuss the book by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:15 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | eBook Help Hour: Get Started with eBooks
Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:15 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Motivational Seminar: It's Time for Massive Change!
Hello Destiny! Hello Potential! Hello New You! In this seminar, given by the Co-Publisher of City Guide Magazine and the former CEO of The Seminar Center Eli Marcus, the goal is "In with the Sparkling NEW you, out with the rumpled sweater version of the OLD you." You will discuss WHAT needs to change within you and WHY these things are essential to change to secure greater happiness, health, friendships, spirituality and abundance.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:30 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | MS Excel 2011 for Mac for Beginners Workshop
Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:30 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | 4 October Exhibitions
Please join the opening receptions for Cecily Brown: Rehearsal, Olga Chernysheva: Vague Accent, Open Sessions 8: Planes and Corridors, and Gary Simmons: Ghost Reels.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | The Merchant 'in' Venice: The Historic Staging of Shakespeare's Classic in the Jewish Ghetto: A Theatrical Preview
Karin Coonrod, a 2015 Bogliasco Fellow and the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will present a behind-the-scenes look at her production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the city’s Jewish Ghetto.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Accordion books: mystical tales, abstract and imagined images
Lynne Mayocole is a sculptor. But during a period of great personal sorrow, an accordion book reached out to her in a Japanese bookstore, and since then she has never been without her books and pens and colored pencils. They traveled with her to Santa Fe and to Costa Rica, and, in Riez, a small medieval town in Provence, she daily drew the surrounding scenes from her balcony. Some of her drawings are abstract or imagined images. Irene Christensen's art expresses her visions of a past era, and is reflective of her strong commitment to the environmental. In her use of metaphorical figures, her weaves mystical tales conjured by the equilibrium of humans and nature.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Chinese Soap Opera and Social Change
A talk with writer and journalist Zha Jianying, in conversation with Professor Lei Ping, on Chinese Soap Opera and Social Change. Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “One of the best books of 2011” by The Economist) and China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture, which was selected by The Village Voice as “One of the 25 Best Books of 1995", as well as five books of non-fiction and fiction in Chinese.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Color Collage band: blend of doo wop and electronic beats
Nestled in the midst of some great eats, and boutique shops Paper Garden Records brings some of NYC's best underground artists!
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Northern Organizing and Cultural Renaissance
Three lost narratives in the history of the Black Renaissance will be uncovered this October as part of the popular community education series, "Conversations in Black Freedom Studies." One narrative was explored by Professor Anne Meis Knupfer in her book, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism, which introduces a new generation of readers to black women writers and leaders of the 1930s through the 1950s—from Gwendolyn Brooks to Lorraine Hansberry. These women established a movement that fused together culture and politics, and opened the door to an emerging series of works. While Knupfer explains their cultural and intellectual resonance, fellow author Erik Gellman explains their politics in another narrative within that history, Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights. The National Negro Congress is a buried chapter in the Civil Rights Movement that was hidden by the FBI when it tried to destroy the Negro Liberation led by Claudia Jones, Vicki Garvin, Paul Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois and W.E.B. Du Bois. And up until recently, the lost chapter of the alliance between the Young Lords’s Nuyorican Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement was also hidden by Cold War dynamics. But New York curator Yasmin Ramirez, one of the leading experts on this subject, will introduce the story of that complex intersection of Latin American, Latino and African-American artists and writers in New York City during the Bebop Revolution of the 1940s, featuring Elizabeth Catlett and Langston Hughes alongside Diego Rivera and so many others. Join the conversation with Anne Knupfer, Erik Gellman, Yazmin Ramirez as they discuss Northern Organizing and Cultural Renassaince.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Other | DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walk
Scheduled for the first Thursday of every month, this walk showcases live music performances, screenings, artist talks and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Moses and the Monochrome. Thought Experiments in the Art and Theology of Modernism
Speaker Lydia Goehr is a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She teaches courses in the history of aesthetic theory, the contemporary philosophy of the arts, critical theory, and the philosophy of history. Her research interests are in German aesthetic theory and in particular in the relationship between philosophy, politics, history, and music.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Paintings: improvised and cartoonish
Anne Drager's works on paper apply blends of pastel, pencil, and watercolor. She also presents her first portfolio from the printing press: monotype-collages and a woodcut series of brightly colored animals. Much content is autobiographical. Drager says about her art: "I made the turn from art appreciation to art making during a time of need and it continuously provides me with healing, learning, discovery and contemplation. Hence, my art is a tool for living".
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Reclaim Control and Get It Done!
Some days you can bask in the feeling of accomplishment that comes with having checked off every task on your to-do list. While other days… life happens. You feel like you’re on a treadmill going nowhere and are quickly drowning in a sea of uncompleted tasks. Stephany Shalofsky, a professional organizer, will share strategies that will change your daily mantra from “WHERE IS IT?!!!” to “Done!” and make the constant state of chaos, confusion and anxiety a thing of the past. Stephanie Shalofsky, founder of The Organizing Zone, works with small companies from solopreneurs in home offices to those with up to 25 employees to gain control over their work environment resulting in improving productivity and profits.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Sparks of Life: Electricity, Animality, and Film
From cinema to electroshock therapy to the electric chair, electricity has always exuded ambivalent powers as both animator and killer. Focusing on the story of the condemned Topsy in Thomas Edison’s Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), this talk explores the intersections of electrical and political power in the age of visual spectacle. Lecturer: Anat Pick, Professor of Film, Queen Mary's College, University of London, UK
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Writers Read: Joel Brouwer / Henry Israeli / Megan Staffel
Joel Brouwer is the author of Exactly What Happened (Purdue University Press, 1999), Centuries (Four Way Books, 2003), And So (Four Way Books, 2009), and Off Message, a Four Way Books Fall 2016 title. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is chair of the Department of English at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Henry Israeli is the author of god’s breath hovering across the waters, a Four Way Books Fall 2016 title. His previous poetry collections include New Messiahs (Four Way Books: 2002), and Praying to the Black Cat (Del Sol: 2010). He is the translator of Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions: 2002), Child of Nature (New Directions: 2010), and Haywire: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2011). He is also the founder and editor of Saturnalia Books. Megan Staffel lives in western New York State and Brooklyn. She is the author of two novels and her most recent collection of short fiction, The Exit Coach, a Four Way Books Fall 2016 title, is her third collection. She teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Artist explaines his works
Teacher of Digital Art and graduate of Yale University School of Art, Jeffrey Scudder will be making three whiteboard pictures, twenty minutes each, while commenting on and discussing his process with Vera List Center Fellows Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel, reflecting on how to collaborate with a system and yet investigate its rules, whether the system is a drawing, a computer program, a political regime or an educational organization.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Elizabeth Greenwood discusses her book Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
This discussion investigates our all-too-human desire to escape from the lives we lead, and the men and women desperate enough to lose their identities—and their families—to begin again.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Film | German Cinema: Maren Ade's Everyone Else (2009)
A young couple in their early 30s lives through the cosy togetherness of a Sardinian vacation marked by honesty: the idealistic architect Chris and the pragmatic PR consultant Gitti have an intense relationship that constantly alternates between passion, childish fun, and earnestness. Both test one another as if they were teenagers. The conflict boils up when they are confronted with another couple, Hans, a successful architect, and Sana, a fashion designer. These two seem to have a monopoly on the sunny side of life and perfectly manage to hide their conventional gender roles behind a progressive facade. When Chris starts following the other couple's lead, Gitti feels betrayed. Her attempt to adapt to his new ideal develops from a role-playing game into a silent battle against herself. 124 min. In German with English subtitles.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Legacy of writer and preservationist Jane Jacobs
Peter Laurence, author of Becoming Jane Jacobs, and Robert Kanigel, author of the upcoming book Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, will speak on the legacy of writer and preservationist Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), whose work changed the way the world views and understands cities. Award-winning author and preservationist Roberta Brandes Gratz will introduce Laurence and Kanigel.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Cape Disappointment: A College Production
A decaying drive-in comes to life with stories of neon moonlight, naughty little girls, and an America you imagine remembering. So sit back, relax, refrain from loud talking and rough-housing, turn off your headlights, enjoy some tasty popcorn, put litter in its place, keep an eye on your children, think about how happy we could be, and remember that this country is full of dark, dark places along dark, dark roadways where dark, dark things can happen.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Play | cul-de-sac: Trying to Be Happy in America
In cul-de-sac you'll meet the Smiths, the Johnsons and the Joneses. They live in a nice little cul-de-sac in a nice little suburb in a nice little state in a nice big country. And they’re happy. Or—trying to be. The lengths to which they go to be--or seem or feel--happy are hilarious and heartbreaking. cul-de-sac is a not-quite-for-families family comedy that examines the American dream—and the nightmare it can become. Takes place Oct. 5-8.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Baring It: Self-Exposure in Feminist Performance
In this roundtable conversation, artists Karen Finley and Narcissister will join Barbara Browning, associate professor of Performance Studies, to discuss continuing debates around self-exposure in women’s art. What power—and what risk—does one assume in baring oneself in artistic practice, or in inviting others to do so? How much has changed in the half century between Charlotte Moorman’s performance in Opera Sextronique and feminist art today?
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Ben Katchor reads from his book Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor’s extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing city — an urban landscape of low-rent apartment buildings, obsolete industries, monuments to forgotten people and events, and countless sources of inexpensive food. Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America that is as moving today as when first published twenty-five years ago.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Chantal Akerman's From the East (1993): cinematographic elegy to Soviet nation
The film is a haunting, nearly wordless record of Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make reconstructing her impressions in the manner of a documentary on the border of fiction.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | French Comics on Screen: Film Adaptations of Franco-Belgian Graphic Narratives
Featuring" Etienne Davodeau, Matz, Jean-Claude Mézières, Arthur de Pins and Jean-Marc Rochette. Moderated by Alex Dueben. Jean-Claude Mézières, creator of the classic francophone graphic novel series Valerian and Laureline, will discuss his role in Luc Besson’s 2017 film adaptation of the series, and Jean-Marc Rochette will detail his involvement in the movie version of his Snowpiercer (with Chris Evans). Matz will explain how legendary Warriors director Walter Hill’s unproduced screenplays became comics, and Arthur de Pins and Etienne Davodeau will speak about indie adaptations.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Ghosts and Demons in the Consulting Room
Join in celebrating the publication of two volumes exploring the role of family and political trauma in the scene of psychoanalysis, edited by Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalb, and Susan Klebanoff. Ghosts in the Consulting Room and Demons in the Consulting Room are timely contributions to an evolving exploration of the psychic manifestations of trauma. About the authors: Adrienne Harris (Faculty and Supervisor at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) Margery Kalb (faculty and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology (Adjunct) at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) Susan Klebanoff (Ferkauf School of Psychology, Yeshiva University). Please join the authors for a stimulating discussion and a toast to the significant efforts of all the contributors!
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Reading | Irish American Writers and Artists Salon
Welcome Irish-American writers, actors, filmmakers, musicians and artists of every (and no) religion. As well as celebrating the achievements of Irish-American writers and artists, past and present, IAW+A's purpose is to highlight, energize and encourage Irish Americans working in the arts. IAW+A is committed both to bringing together the Irish American creative community in new self-awareness and to being a force for inter-ethnic and interracial solidarity, understanding and active cooperation.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
No cover...
No cover...
Film | Ken Russell's Oscar-Nominated Altered States (1980): Tripping Professor
Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban. A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. 102 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Marina Budhos discusses her book Watched
Join a special night that mixes politics, literature, and theater, as they launch Marina Budhos’s latest novel Watched—a moral odyssey of a Muslim teenager in the age of surveillance. They’ll be joined by a special theatrical adaptation of the book by actors from Theater 167, who will also discuss some of the challenges of being an Asian American actor.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation...
$5 suggested donation...
Author Reading | Mark Lilla discusses his book The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction explores the reactionary mind. The reactionary is shipwrecked in the changing present, suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history rushes toward catastrophe. We live in an age when the tragicomic nostalgia for a lost golden age has transformed into a potent, sometimes deadly weapon. Lilla helps us understand why.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Staged Reading | Politics, literature, and theater: readings from Watched by Marina Budhos
Watched explores the struggles of a Bangladeshi teenager named Naeem Rahman—who is pressured by the police to spy on his Muslim neighbors in Queens as an informant. Booklist wrote, “Budhos presents another effective coming-of-age novel, one that not only confronts without reservation the notion of Islamaphobia and issues of teenage identity but also tackles the grittier aspects of life in this post-9/11 era. What does it mean to belong to a family? a community? a country?” Performed by Theater 167.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation,...
$5 suggested donation,...
Classical Music | St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble performs Haydn, Bologne, Gossec
The program features the work of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a highly regarded classical composer and one of the first of African ancestry as well as works of Joseph Haydn and François-Joseph Gossec, both of whom worked directly with Bologne during his lifetime. St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble will be joined by The Classical Theatre of Harlem to bring life to Bologne's biography, which ranges from his prodigious fencing career, role as a general for the Republic during the French Revolution to his remarkable virtuosity as a violinist, composer and conductor. Each patron is encouraged to bring non-perishable food donations for City Harvest, the world’s first food rescue organization.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Steve Pincus discusses his book The Heart of the Declaration
Steve Pincus and Keith Gessen discuss Pincus’ most recent book, The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government, which argues that the politically radioactive concerns of 2016 – immigration, income inequality, economic stimulus, austerity, the national debt, government size, trade – were precisely those that concerned the Founders 240 years ago.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | The Biography of Charlotte Dufrène, Featuring Pulitzer-Winning Poet John Ashberry
Authors Renaud de Putter, writer, composer, and filmmaker, and Guy Bordin, ethnographer and filmmaker, will discuss their biography of Charlotte Dufrène, the woman who was the companion of homosexual writer Raymond Roussel, tracing her path from the demi-monde of the Belle Epoque to the circles of the literary avant-garde. They will be joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Asjberry, who knew Dufrène at the end of her life in the early 1960’s.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Writers in Conversation: Emily Barton and Darryl Pinckney
Emily Barton’s most recent novel is "The Book of Esther" (Tim Duggan Books, 2016). "Black Deutschland" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) is the latest novel from Darryl Pinckney (pictured). This event is hosted by Creative Writing Program faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour
New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Linsanity: A Discussion on Race, Sports, and Media
David Hollander (Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business) and Sukdev Sandhu (Department of Social and Cultural Analysis) host a panel on race, sports, and marketing. Panelists includes filmmaker Jonathan Yi (East of Main Street), journalist Jay Caspian Kang (New York Times Magazine), and documentarian Ursula Liang (9-Man).
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Piano Master Class: Craig Sheppard
Sheppard is the Co-Founder and Co-Director with Dr. Robin McCabe of the Seattle Piano Institute, a camp for young pianists held every July since 2010 at the University of Washington.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Sounds from Algeria: Ifrikya Spirit
Fronted by a transfixing, gritty vocalist, and grounded by not one but two guimbri (three-stringed, skin-covered basses) plus a drummer, bassist, and keyboard player, the Algerian band Ifrikya Spirit plays with the nimbleness of a jazz ensemble and the earthy passion of a hard-hitting roots group. Inspired by the pulsing rhythms and call-and-response melodies of Algerian diwan music, Ifrikya Spirit stakes its expansive musical tent at the juncture of West African instruments and global sensibilities. Eclectic and elemental, Ifrikya Spirit is "a stand-out with a unique sound at the melting point of new composition and instrumental abundance, with messages of peace and inter-African solidarity, all rooted in the rituals of the diwan" (Algerie Presse Service).
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Midtown Manhattan Night Tour
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway. Takes place Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | NYU Philharmonia performs Ravel, Beethoven, Górecki
Program: Henryk Górecki (1933-2010): Three Pieces in Old Style Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
Free
Free
8:00 pm
Free
Free
Play | New Visions Directing Festival: 8000m by David Greig
8000m takes us to the Himalayas, where an exhibition team attempts to summit Lhotse, the fourth highest peak in the world. As climbers undertake the Lhotse face, relationships fragment, shift, and cascade – just like the mountain surrounding them. What is the ultimate cost into this ‘Death Zone?’
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
9:30 pm
Free
Free
Complimentary Tickets
to shows, concerts ... (CFT Deals!)
Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue
Regular Price: $59CFT Member Price: $0.00
Join the Club!
Today's Events
All 976 Events
Events This Week
Events This Weekend
Contact FAQ Reviews About Terms of Use Privacy Policy
All events are free unless otherwise stated. All programs subject to change. Please confirm before going.Contact FAQ Reviews About Terms of Use Privacy Policy
© Copyright Club Free Time. All rights reserved.