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January 16, 2026. Free shows, concerts, movies, tours are New York (NYC) best kept secret! New York City never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's day or night, weekday or weekend, summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September. If you are looking for inexpensive things to do and where to go in Manhattan today, tonight, tomorrow, or any other time, or any other day of any week - you came to the right place: just click on any day on the calendar dispayed on the every page of our site and you will see how many events you can attend in Manhattan free of charge on that very day.

New York's cultural scene is at its busiest in October and March (and the same goes for free events, free things to do), but other months of the year still offer incredible amount of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away! So if you looking for something to do in April or November, December or February, you will find tons of free things to do, free events to go to. (In June, July and August lots of those free events take place outdoors, of course).

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Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!

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Free things to do, free events that take place in the City every day of the year are truly amazing. So if you're looking for something interesting to do today (January 16, 2026) or on any other day of the year don't miss those free-of-charge opportunities that only New York provides! You can find lots of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!

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In addition to providing information about free events, free things to do in New York, Club Free Time offers its members complimentary tickets to classical music concerts, dance performances and theater: when a producer wants that special buzz of the 'full house' - Club Free Time members are welcomed for their enthusiasm and sophistication!

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Experience an entirely new perspective on New York. 'Open up a whole new cultural world... in one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world, sampling cultural delights beyond anyone's wildest dream.' Rupert Parker, journalist, photographer, cameraman, and TV producer
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44 free  things to do in New York City (NYC) today:
Friday, January 16, 2026

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Workshop | Zumba: Latin-Inspired Dance Fitness


Get your heart pumping with Zumba, a dynamic workout set to Latin, international, and popular music. This fun, easy-to-follow class combines fast and slow rhythms for aerobic interval training that challenges both heart and muscles. Perfect for all fitness levels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Zumba: Latin-Inspired Dance Fitness

Museums | Friday at Pop Culture/Art Museum


Through temporary exhibitions, a growing permanent collection, and educational events, this museum examines the significant influence of posters on society and culture, and how they are adapted for modern use. As the first poster museum in the United States, it offers a space for inquiry for anyone interested in design, advertising, and public interventions, with the goal of enhancing design literacy among the general public. Works explore: mass communication and persuasion the intersection of art and commerce control of the public domain
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free
Museumss, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Friday at Pop Culture/Art Museum

Workshop | Crafting Community


Bring your own craft or art project to work on!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Crafting Community

Film | Black Bag (2025): Spy Thriller with Cate Blanchett


When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country. Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Michael Fassbender, Gustav Skarsgard, and Cate Blanchett Australian actor and producer Cate Blanchett has received much recogniton, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globes, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She's also been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Among her honors are the 2001 Australian Centenary Medal, and an appointment to the Companion of the Order of Australia. Both a film and stage actor, Blanchett has been in 20 theater productions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Black Bag (2025): Spy Thriller with Cate Blanchett

Film | Funny Girl (1968): Classic Biographical Musical with Barbra Streisand


The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s: her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld Girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. Director: William Wyler Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon Barbra Streisand is an American singer and actress with a career spanning over six decades. She has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Short film discussion to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free
Films, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Funny Girl (1968): Classic Biographical Musical with Barbra Streisand

Workshop | Crafting Community: Work on Personal Projects & Make New Friends


Freeform crafting and conversation! Bring your own project or choose something from the collection to work on. The organizers have materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, and paper crafts. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Crafting Community: Work on Personal Projects & Make New Friends

Film | Memento (2000): Psychological Thriller Film from Christopher Nolan 


Leonard Shelby is a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia—resulting in short-term memory loss and the inability to form new memories. He uses an elaborate system of photographs, handwritten notes, and tattoos in an attempt to uncover the perpetrator who killed his wife and caused him to sustain the condition. Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano Christopher Nolan is a British and American filmmaker. Known for his Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. His films have grossed more than $6 billion worldwide. The recipient of many accolades, he has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and eight Golden Globe Awards. In 2015, he was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Memento (2000): Psychological Thriller Film from Christopher Nolan&nbsp;

Jazz | Afternoon Jam Sesh (Play Music or Just Listen)


This jam session is open to all musicians. Come and play or just listen to some jazzy tunes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Afternoon Jam Sesh (Play Music or Just Listen)

Classical Music | Cello Pieces by J.S. Bach & Chopin (In Person AND Online!)


Peter Weng, cello, performs two pieces by legendary composers. Program: J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012 Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65
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3:00 pm
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Cello Pieces by J.S. Bach & Chopin (In Person AND Online!)

Gallery Talk | Expert Insights: Marriage in Medieval Art


Examine how medieval art depicted marriage, from everyday devotion to mystical visions of divine love. Experts lead small groups through select objects, offering fresh insights, untold stories, and close-up perspectives on the symbolism and context of the works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talks, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Expert Insights:&nbsp;Marriage in Medieval Art

Workshop | Play Chess


Sharpen your mind, meet new people, and enjoy this timeless game. Chess sets and timers are provided. Adults only.
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Workshops, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Play Chess

Dance Performance | Live Electroacoustic Music & Contemporary Dance 


Enjoy live performances from two artists: Bézier and Yeonju Ha. Electronic sound artist band Bézier will perform Access, an electroacoustic music–based sound performance that explores the technical and ontological meanings of the act of “access.” Through tactile–auditory transference using conductive objects, the detection of invisible signals via radio and noise, and spatial experiences created with multichannel speakers and lights, its five parts sensorially reconstruct moments in which reality and the virtual intersect. Access uses sound not as a mere background but as a medium for shaping a nonlinear terrain of time and sensation, inviting the audience to experience “reconnecting with the world” through listening. Contemporary dancer and choreographer Yeonju Ha will perform Vertebra, a work that focuses not on a perfected shape but on the fragile and persistent process of holding, collapsing, and rebuilding the body. Through these continual shifts, the piece reveals how instability itself can be a place of truth and resilience. The objects that appear onstage are closely connected to the dancer’s own body. They evoke fragments of structure, weight, and balance, functioning as extensions of the physical self. These objects create an additional layer of sensation, guiding viewers toward a deeper awareness of how the body remembers, adapts, and reassembles itself.
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Dance Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Live Electroacoustic Music & Contemporary Dance&nbsp;

Performance | Multidisciplinary (Music & Theater) Performance by Vocalist Ohelen


Enjoy a Greta Oto performance by vocalist and performance artist Ohelen. Greta Oto is both a singular character and a form of narrative itself, explored through solo performance. The performer moves continuously through fragments of memory, repeated phrases, and uncertain narrative structures, inviting audience projection rather than delivering a fixed message. Unresolved words, interrupted emotions, and moments that oscillate between stillness and movement appear vividly on stage. Audiences may experience the character as a "vanishing person" or see reflections of their own memories within her presence. Each performance introduces new episodes, allowing the work to expand continuously. The open structure encourages multiple interpretations, emphasizing the layered and ephemeral nature of the piece. Ohelen is a vocalist and performance artist whose work moves fluidly across music, theatre, and visual composition. Her practice is rooted in improvisation and mobility, expanding performance into an event that unfolds uniquely in each encounter. By engaging audiences as active participants, her works transform music into a ritualistic and communal experience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Multidisciplinary (Music & Theater) Performance by Vocalist Ohelen

Concert | "Consistently Invigorating" Singer-Songwriter Natalie Tenenbaum


Composer, pianist, and singer-songwriter Natalie Tenenbaum starts a special five-week residency. Each week, Tenenbaum will guide audiences on a sonic journey, traveling fluidly between classical, jazz, pop, and experimental soundscapes. Natalie Tenenbaum has premiered works worldwide, collaborated with artists including Lang Lang, Pentatonix, and David Byrne, and created arrangements for Broadway’s Mean Girls. Her recent albums—Duos/Solos and Standard Repertoire Vol. 1—reimagine everything from Bach to Stravinsky through her post-classical lens. Tenenbaum’s performances have been praised by The New York Times as “sparkling… consistently invigorating,” and her boundary-crossing approach is sure to make each evening of this residency a thrilling opportunity to hear familiar music in a wholly new way.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, "Consistently Invigorating" Singer-Songwriter Natalie Tenenbaum

Museums | A Night of Live Music, Drinks & 5,000 Years of Art


Enjoy a stylish evening of art, live music, and engaging talks every Friday and Saturday night. From 5-9 PM, sip on drink specials, sample light fare, and take in the museum's vast collection spanning millennia. Grab a friend, a partner, or come solo--this after-hours experience offers something for everyone.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, A Night of Live Music, Drinks & 5,000 Years of Art

Museums | American History and Artifact Collections


Enjoy a stroll through galleries of an extensive collection of American art, learn about the history of New York and the USA. Last admission is at 7 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, American History and Artifact Collections

Opening Reception | Art Made from Upcycled and Discarded Materials


This group exhibition brings together works created from rescued, upcycled, and discarded materials, exploring transformation, reuse, and creative reinvention. The show highlights how, every day, overlooked materials can be reimagined through artistic processes. The works on view emphasize sustainability, resourcefulness, and the expressive potential of reclaimed materials.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Art Made from Upcycled and Discarded Materials

Museums | Celebration With Live Music, Afro'Dance Taught by Ailey Dancers, Giveaways and Much More


Celebrate two years of free admission with cakes, cocktails, giveaways, and live music. Enjoy an Afro'Dance class taught by Ailey Extension, a photo booth, and stunning river views while soaking in the festive atmosphere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Museumss, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Celebration With Live Music, Afro'Dance Taught by Ailey Dancers, Giveaways and Much More

Festival | Evening Light and Sound Experience


From January 16 to February 17, explore a unique light and sound installation after dark. Enjoy the vibrant city energy, with entertainment and special offers from local businesses, turning your visit into a full evening out.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free
Festivals, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Evening Light and Sound Experience

Museums | Friday Evening at the Art/History Museum


This museum is an assemblage of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints inside a historic building. Registration opens 7 days in advance & does sell out.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museums | Friday Evening at the Famous Art Museum


This special, all-ages evening celebrates the art and the city. Explore in the galleries, get creative with drop-in drawing sessions, and see a film in the theaters. Museum stores and cafe will be open, too, so you can grab a bite, get drinks, or shop for unique design objects. Free for New York State residents but must be reserved in advance (up to two adults), and are subject to availability and proof of residency. Tickets are released one week in advance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free
Museumss, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Friday Evening at the Famous Art Museum

Classical Music | Baroque Works by Couperin, Handel, & More


Josh Liu, Baroque violin, Pearl De La Motte, Baroque violin, Lev Meniker, Baroque bassoon, and Shuntaro Sugie, harpsichord, perform a series of pieces by early composers. Program: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Trio Sonata in F Major, 42:F1 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Concerto "Doppio" in C Minor Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755) Concerto for Bassoon in D Major, Op. 26, No. 6 Francois Couperin (1668-1733) From Les gouts-reunis, Concert No. 5: I. Prelude. Gracieusement Dario Castello (1602-1631) Trio Sonata X Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (c.1690-1758) Trio Sonata in B Minor
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free
Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Baroque Works by Couperin, Handel, & More

Classical Music | Duo Recital for Viola and Piano: Works by Schumann & Shostakovich


Enjoy an evening of chamber music featuring violist Ekaterina Eibozhenko and pianist Viona Sanjaya, performing selections by Schumann and Shostakovich. Note: Please present your ticket at least ten minutes before the concert to ensure seating. Registration opens January 9th at noon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Duo Recital for Viola and Piano: Works by Schumann & Shostakovich

Opening Reception | Examining the Threshold Before Dawn Through Watercolor & Film 


On view are works that span artist Ali Cherri’s practice, including intimate watercolors developed in recent years alongside moving-image and sculptural concerns. The exhibition brings together recurring motifs that reflect the artist’s ongoing engagement with history, memory, and the ways violence and power are embedded in objects and environments. Rendered with controlled, fluid brushwork, the works offer a quiet but charged entry point into Cherri’s broader investigation of time, conflict, and perception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Examining the Threshold Before Dawn Through Watercolor & Film&nbsp;

Opening Reception | Exploring Mythic Landscapes and Feminine Archetypes Through Painting


Melanie Daniel's new paintings evoke feverish, timeless landscapes where cloaked female figures, animals, and symbolic natural forms merge myth and futurism. Drawing on memory, folklore, and ecological interdependence, the works develop as mysterious narratives that draw viewers into a suspended space between nature, humanity, and imagination. The artist will be present for the reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Exploring Mythic Landscapes and Feminine Archetypes Through Painting

Opening Reception | Layered Sculptural Paintings Exploring Time and Material


This solo exhibition features recent wall-mounted works by Ara Peterson that blur the line between painting and sculpture. Using layered materials such as wood veneer, plastic, and recycled surfaces, Peterson cuts into built-up forms to reveal shifting layers shaped by both intention and chance. The resulting textured, rhythmic compositions explore ideas of movement and the passage of time embedded within the materials.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Layered Sculptural Paintings Exploring Time and Material

Opening Reception | Multi-Artist Exhibition on Bodies & Souls in the Digital Age


This exhibition. Liquid Crystal Respawn, investigates the porous spaces between life and artifice. The artworks operate within a long lineage of performance as a method of testing the body’s thresholds: what can be outsourced, coded, automated, ritualized, or rebuilt. In these practices, inanimate forms become sites of emotional and spiritual projection, echoing ancient stories of golems—automata brought to life from clay through ritual intention. Only here, golems are not the soulless automata of Jewish folklore, but humans reconfigured. These tender, uncanny bodies emerge from tradition, memory, labor, and intimacy, and the bodies and souls of their artist makers. This continual cycle becomes a survival mechanism of collapse and reconstitution, as autonomic as the impulse to deactivate and then later reactivate a social media account. Together, these artists and their works resist narratives of human obsolescence by staging the posthuman as something sensorial and affective. Their work defends emotional life from within the liquid crystal display, inviting viewers to slow down and smell the digital flowers. Artists include Sadrie Alves, Dahlia Bloomstone, Clare Gatto, Kara Güt, Maya Man, Krysta Sa, and Asia Stewart.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Multi-Artist Exhibition on Bodies & Souls in the Digital Age

Opening Reception | Myth, Memory, and Shelter in Sculptures and Drawings


This joint presentation features two interconnected exhibitions by Simone Fattal, celebrating the artist’s return to New York after her 2019 survey at MoMA PS1. Covering sculpture, drawing, and collage, Fattal’s work links the ancient with the modern, drawing on mythic, literary, and archaeological references from the Mediterranean region. Using materials like clay, stoneware, and bronze, she portrays elemental forces, architectural fragments, and figures that express timeless ideas of home, resilience, and faith.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Myth, Memory, and Shelter in Sculptures and Drawings

Opening Reception | Painting and Works on Paper Exploring Color and Time


Paul Pagk’s third solo exhibition presents recent large-scale paintings alongside works on paper that examine the tension between slow, deliberate painting and the immediacy of drawing. Geometric incisions cut through expansive fields of color, inviting viewers into a contemplative mental and spatial architecture shaped by material limits, gesture, and perception.
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Painting and Works on Paper Exploring Color and Time

Opening Reception | Seven Decades of Prints & Sculpture


This solo exhibition showcases work by Zarina (1937–2020), covering her seven-decade career and serving as a major posthumous presentation of her art. It gathers prints, woodcuts, collages, and sculptural works in cast paper, emphasizing the scope and lasting significance of her practice. Influenced by a life spanning different geographies, languages, and cultures, Zarina’s work explores themes of displacement, memory, and history, often referencing the Urdu language and a precisely minimal visual vocabulary of line, geometry, and material.
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Seven Decades of Prints & Sculpture

Opening Reception | Surviving Shadows: Contemporary Afghan Art Under Repression


This exhibition presents works by artists based in Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora responding to the loss of cultural freedom following the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. Featuring painting, video, photography, and personal testimony, the show brings together smuggled works, hidden creations, images of destroyed art, and newly made pieces that reflect resilience in the face of censorship, displacement, and violence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Surviving Shadows: Contemporary Afghan Art Under Repression
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Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Theatrical Piece About the Need for One Another

Classical Music | Young Musicians Perform Arias from Operas by Giuseppe Verdi


Hear elite young vocalists with Accademia Verdiana in New York perform arias from operas by Giuseppe Verdi, an initiative of the Teatro Regio in Parma,
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Young Musicians Perform Arias from Operas by Giuseppe Verdi
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Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Absurd Animal Comedy-Drama
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Plays, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Political Drama Based on Classic Theater

Dance Performance | Contemporary Movement Dance & Artistic Performance


Experience two performances by artists Shin's People and NOLPLUS. The Shin's People dance performance Boisterous Bodies reinterprets the vibrant atmosphere and sensory character of Korean traditional markets through a contemporary movement language. From ajummas squatting beside large basins, to hands swiftly sorting goods on narrow stands, to the rhythmic call of “Golla-golla!” and the lively motions of the yeot seller, familiar market actions are transformed into new choreographic textures. The performers shape the market’s bustling warmth and collective energy into movement, exploring how the everyday bodies of today might become the embodied traditions of tomorrow. Through this process, familiar gestures become dance, and the breath of daily life is reborn onstage. NOLPLUS performance group's Yeonhee Gyeong piece visualizes the very process of imagination and creation, exploring the point where the temporality of tradition meets contemporary artistic vision. Drawing on the cyclical sense of time within traditional yeonhee (Korean folk performance) and its structure of ritual and play, the piece expresses the flow of time through rhythm and movement. The stage is built upon the archetypal structure of traditional performance, presenting a yeonhee world that traverses the four seasons and culminates in a transcendent fifth season.”
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Dance Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Contemporary Movement Dance & Artistic Performance

Concert | French Renaissance Devotional Music for Voices and Viola da Gamba


This music ensemble presents a program of devotional works by French Renaissance composer Claude le Jeune, a leading figure in 16th-century Paris known for his innovative use of text setting and chromatic harmony. The concert features selections from Octonaire and Psaumes mesuree, along with several chromatic songs, scored for voices and viola da gamba consort. The evening will also include the world premiere of director Doug Balliett's new setting of St. Augustine's Prayer from Soliloquies.
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, French Renaissance Devotional Music for Voices and Viola da Gamba

Performance | The Body as an Instrument, La Plante Dansante de Desastres Performance


Enjoy Seon-ah Jo's La Plante Dansante de Desastres, a performative practice in which the performer perceives the instrument as the body--or the body as an instrument. The performer projects herself, an East Asian female body, onto the gayageum, a traditional Korean string instrument. The connectivity between instrument and body expands both inward and outward, resisting or reenacting the duties imposed upon the female body while attending to the unnamed strata of sound that reside beneath the surface. Seon-ah Jo is an interdisciplinary artist and performer whose work moves fluidly across music, movement, and sound art. She treats the gestures and sounds generated by her Gayageum-playing body as equal artistic languages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, The Body as an Instrument, La Plante Dansante de Desastres Performance

Classical Music | Cello Works by Beethoven, Schubert, & More (In Person AND Online!)


Colin Guan, cello, performs a series of pieces by composers from various musical periods. Program: Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2 Lisa Bielawa (1968-) Missa Primavera Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D.821
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8:00 pm
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Concerts, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Cello Works by Beethoven, Schubert, & More (In Person AND Online!)
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Plays, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Emmy Winner and Broadway Actor in a Classic Play
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Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Irish Music, Dance and More
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Comedy Clubs, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Stand Up Comedy
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Plays, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, The Story of a Celebrated Historical Figure
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Performances, January 16, 2026, 01/16/2026, Space-Inspired Theaterical Experience
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Jazz | Jazz, Soul, and Spirituals with Award-Winning Singer and Band

Regular Price: $29
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Concert | Met Opera Singers Perform Spirituals, Opera Selections and More

Regular Price: $25
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Play | Emmy Winner and Broadway Actor in a Classic Play

Regular Price: $55
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