34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, April 1, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
The 4th Annual Design Intelligence Conference will feature panel discussions, a keynote speaker, skill-based ...
more >> workshops, and networking opportunities for students, innovators, and the greater design community. This year’s conference theme will be Designing for Global Volatility. Inspired by the radical, political and social changes around the world. We will focus on exploring the role of designers as change agents, and how design can inform, inspire, and empower in the new era of volatility.
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ...
more >> 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.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World ...
more >> 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.
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> 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.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ...
more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> 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.
Whether you are a seasoned professional, a proud shower singer, or someone who has never opened their ...
more >> mouth to sing, Inside Voice allows singers and non-singers alike to uncover the power and beauty of their full 5-octave range while developing a deep, emotive connection to their own unique sound. Through exercises and group songs that are as silly as they are revelatory, Inside Voice shows that the only limits on our voices are the ones we impose on them and that to work on the voice is to work on the self. You’ll learn to harness powerful, heartbreaking, visceral, fragile, and otherworldly sounds you never dreamed were inside you all the while dramatically extending your range, building your confidence, and strengthening the emotional links between you and your voice. With Jon Stancato.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome to present their work (complete or in-progress) on ...
more >> the potential of art and aesthetics to impact how humans perceive, relate, and act––individually or collectively.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
A guided walking tour of the historic and revitalized 34th Street District. Tour-goers will explore the ...
more >> neighborhood's rich history of commerce, transit, and architecture. This 90-minute tour is held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through May 28, 2017.
Discuss the book by Leah Remini. Bold, brash, and bravely confessional, Troublemaker chronicles Leah ...
more >> Remini’s remarkable journey toward emotional and spiritual freedom, both for herself and for her family. This is a memoir designed to reveal the hard-won truths of a life lived honestly—from an author unafraid of the consequence.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Discover some of the Central Park secret sites that West Siders know and love: a lost village, a poetic ...
more >> garden, and a bridge with a spectacular view. Join Central Park Conservancy guides on this tour through Central Park's historic and picturesque west side. Highlights of this tour include Winterdale Arch, Delacorte Theater, Shakespeare Garden, the Swedish Cottage, and Ladies' Pavilion. Tour ends near 72nd Street and Central Park West.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Australian/Swedish artist Owen Armour will discuss and demonstrate his sonic influences, from meteors ...
more >> crashing to earth or sink holes forming, and how sound impacts shape his practice, whether its seen or unseen. Armour works at the tense edge of sound and sculpture with as starting point the visualization and physicality of sound and how material objects – human or non-human affect the soundscapes that surrounds us. He welds these mediums into an indistinguishable third mode. Armour is interested in subtle acoustics changes in space, both real and imaginary. He also experiments with pressure as he uses his body to mold materials like concrete, ceramics and metal. “All vibrating – none silent.”
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Everyone is invited to help amass the world's largest assembly of Trump look-alikes to march in the parade. ...
more >> New York's irreverent April Fools' Day Parade returns, poking fun once again at the past year's displays of hype, hypocrisy, deceit, bigotry, and downright foolishness. Nothing is sacred. Their satire knows no bounds. The parade this year will be a massive "TRUMPATHON" celebrating our president's greatest fixation -- himself. The public is encouraged to participate, in or out of costume, with or without floats, and may join the procession at any point along the parade route. Floats can be no wider than 10’ and no longer than 30’. They can be self-propelled, towed, pushed or pulled. Customized bicycles, tricycles, baby carriages and aerial balloons are welcome. The parade will start at 12 noon, and will pass by Trump Tower at 12:15 pm. It then marches down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A guided walking tour of the historic and revitalized 34th Street District. Tour-goers will explore the ...
more >> neighborhood's rich history of commerce, transit, and architecture. This 90-minute tour is held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through May 28, 2017.
This is the Instant Shakespeare's 18th Season of presenting free readings of all of Shakespeare's plays ...
more >> annually.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Student Composition Concert With PUBLIQuartet 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Student Conducting ...
more >> Final Workshop
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ...
more >> from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory ...
more >> Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> 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.
The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions ...
more >> of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more! This tour takes place every Saturday.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Described by The Boston Globe as “a musical and expressive player” who is "sensitive and poetic," ...
more >> pianist Quynh Nguyen has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Nguyen returns for a program of intimate and expressive yet brilliant works by Chopin, Beethoven, and Messiaen.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The program features the great repertoire of the organ on the 101-rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker ...
more >> and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. The Organ Meditation takes place every Saturday from Sept. 10, 2016 to May 27, 2017.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A conversation among Carla Juri, the actress playing Paula Modersohn-Becker in Christian Schwochows biopic ...
more >> Paula, Fatima Naqvi, Professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University, and Noah Isenberg, Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.
At the monthly First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including ...
more >> dynamic performances and participatory experiences.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Steeped in disparate references to tea, this new body of work materializes a wide range of relationships, ...
more >> both intact and fragmented, that playfully riff on archetypes, cultural artifacts, and familiar imagery. At the show’s center is a sculpture hinting at an intricate mind map that weaves throughout the exhibition. A basketball-hoop-backboard, with an infinity-mirror platform, scrolls associative loops of LED text, and supports an overstock.com chrome tea cart decked with knotted objects: a tip-jar stripper pump, an Arizona iced-tea can sandwiched between Ronald Reagan’s inauguration cup and saucer, a geisha-fied novelty Reagan teapot with neck tattoos reading “Fate” and “Faith.” A cardinal covered tea-towel drapes over its handlebar beside a clamped iPad amplified by a can-shaped speaker in a drink holder below.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Robert Patrick, trumpet 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Tzuting Tsai, soprano 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ...
more >> Yibai Shao, accompanying 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Yunlei Xie, mezzo-soprano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM All Hindemith Night: Works for Viola 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Yoon Sang Timothy Cho, conducting
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Author / storyteller Thomas R. Pryor (I Hate the Dallas Cowboys: Tales of a Scrappy New York Boyhood) ...
more >> brings his "Stoops to Nuts," storytelling show back to his beloved neighborhood, Yorkville, for a special April Fool’s Day celebration. Pryor's guests will include Tricia Alexandro (actor/writer praised by The New York Times); Joe Dettmore (The Daily Show, Creative Director) and J.P. Connolly (King of the Hill). Pryor promises a swell time with Yorkville tales, ancient B&W photos, silly movies and great tunes sung by a surprise musical guest.
New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native ...
more >> 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 is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the ...
more >> 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 Thursdays and Saturdays.
Program: Peter Mennin: Moby Dick Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. ...
more >> 5 With: The New York Repetory Orchestra James Anderson, guest conductor,
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required