- ABOUT
- CONTACT
- FAQ
- REVIEWS
- GIVE A GIFT OF CFT!
-
Join the Club!
free things to do in New York City
Join the Club!
Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
72 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 19, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Morning Fitness
One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts ... more >> outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can’t be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
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 ... 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
9:30 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 ... 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
9:30 am
Free...
Free...
Tour | Williamsburg Street Art Tour
Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of ... more >> the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheat pasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
9:45 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Conference | Spinoza's Universe
Few philosophers have elicited as much controversy as Baruch Spinoza (1632-77), banished from the Sephardic ... more >> community for his heretical views. A day of guest speakers will explore his philosophy in the context of the tumultuous world of the 17th Century Holland, and its continued relevance today. Keynote address by author and historian Russell Shorto.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free
Free
Film | Roy Del Ruth's The Mind Reader (1933): Phony Clairvoyant
Stars: Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins. A con man and his helper decide to create a ... more >> clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. 70 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park
Test your coordination and dexterity with juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ... more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Author Reading | Markus Prior discusses his book Hooked: How Politics Captures People's Interest
Markus Prior's book explores the origins of interest in politics. Lunch will be served at this event.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ... more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s: Guided Tour of the Exhibition
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ... more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Gallery Talk | Vestiges and Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic: Guided Tour
A Closer-Look Tour led by museum gallery guides.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ... more >> 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
Jazz | George Braith, Underground Saxophone Legend
George Braith is the hard-swinging underground legend of the saxophone and his own invention, the sopralto ... more >> Braithophone.
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 ... more >> 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 | Music in Midtown: From Czarist Russia to the Soviet Union
Renowned violinist and faculty Rolf Schulte, along with DMA candidate Nicolas Namoradze present a program ... more >> of sonatas by Medtner and Prokofiev.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Total Embrace: Leonard Bernstein at 100
Program: Bernstein: La Bonne Cuisine & I hate music Foss: Time Cycle and For Toru Mahler: Lieder eines ... more >> fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg) NOVUS NY featuring Joanna Mongiardo, soprano; Julian Wachner, conductor
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Marginalia performs 'The Book of Beasts'
The medieval bestiary was a collection of descriptions and stories about animals, ranging from the mundane ... more >> to the fantastic, which described moral and theological lessons to be learned from the natural world. Marginalia will explore music connected with several favorite creatures, introduced by narration translated from medieval sources. Marginalia is an ensemble of early music specialists dedicated to the performance of the rich, varied, and often virtuosic repertoire of medieval instrumental and vocal music. The ensemble uses medieval bagpipe, vile, hurdy gurdy, medieval harp,percussion, and other instruments to recreate the music of medieval minstrels as it could have sounded. Christa Patton-harp, woodwinds Dongmyung Ahn-rebec, vielle Peter Walker-voice, bagpipe, hurdy gurdy Sarah Walker-narrator
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Conference | Cultures of the Contemporary African Diaspora
Popular and Contemporary Culture 1:30pm-3:30pm Martin Lüthe (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin) Tavia ... more >> Nyong’o (Yale University) Daniel Stein (Universitaet Siegen) break 3:30pm-4:00pm Gender/Kinship/Sex 4:00pm-6:00pm Gigi Adair (Potsdam) Rebecca Brückmann (Kassel/Cologne) Khary Polk (Amherst College) Robert Reid-Pharr (Graduate Center, CUNY) 6:00pm Discussion with refreshments
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Book Discussion | Book Group: Interpreter of Maladies
Discuss the book by Jhumpa Lahiri.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Book Discussion | Discuss Great Books in a Great Space: The Europeans
Monthly book discussions to explore titles you've been meaning to read, or reread, and discuss with other ... more >> lovers of literature. Participants should read each title before the discussion. This month's title is The Europeans by Henry James.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Double Feature: 2 Dramas from 1932
20,000 YEARS IN SING SING (1932). 1st film of double feature. 78 min., b&w, Michael Curtiz, Dir. Starring ... more >> Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron. A tough criminal meticulously plans his escape from the famous prison with his girlfriend as his getaway driver. SCARLET DAWN (1932). 2nd film of double feature. 58 min., b&w, William Dieterle, Dir. Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Nancy Carroll, Lilyan Tashman. A Russian aristocrat and his servant girl escape to Turkey during the 1917 Russian February Revolution.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | Harlem Tour
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, ... more >> 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
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free...
Free...
Film | Randal Kleiser's Grease (1978): Musical Nostalgic for the 1950s
Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing. Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in ... more >> love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? 110 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Film | Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017): Military Engagements
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell. Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, ... more >> a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. 125 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
Free...
Free...
Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour
An introduction to some of the southern Park highlights, including Grand Army Plaza, the Pond, Gapstow ... more >> Bridge, Wollman Rink, Chess and Checkers House, and the Dairy.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Film | Takashi Miike's Blade of the Immortal (2017): Japanese Actioner
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by ... more >> the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. 140 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s: Guided Tour of the Exhibition
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ... more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Choral Works by Telemann and More
Program: Guido d'Arezzo Ut Que Laxis Jaques Arcadelt Ave Maria Michael John Trotta Totus Tuus Morten ... more >> Lauridsen O Nata Lux Ryan Kerr and Nick Myers Jenny Stephen Hatfield Amazing Grace Thomas Tallis If Ye Love Me Shawn Kirchner Angel band Ola Gjeilo Ubi Caritas Kinley Lange Esto Les Digo Jacob Narverud Dominus Vobiscum Georg Philip Telemann, arr. Jacob Narverud Ich Will Den Herrn loben allezeit Shawn Kirchner Unclouded Day With: South Mecklenburg High School Choirs (Charlotte, NC)
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Concert | Student Recitals
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Chamber Music Concert IV 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Chamber Music Concert V 7:30 PM - 10:00 ... more >> PM Freshman Vocal Recital 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Jiayin Li, piano 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Rong Yue, voice 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Yao Lu, piano
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Master Class | Stephen Wyrczynski, Violist
Stephen Wyrczynski is with Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
4:55 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Lecture | Tar Sands Songbook: An Earth Week Lecture and Performance
In this engaging lecture-performance, musician and ethnographer Tanya Kalmanovitch discusses how she ... more >> uses music, sound and dramatic storytelling to address climate change and social-environmental crisis in her hometown of Fort McMurray, Canada -- a place described as "the largest -- and most destructive -- industrial project in human history". Actor Jennifer Van Dyck joins Kalmanovitch to perform musical and dramatic excerpts from the work. Audience members will be guided in examining how the stories they tell about oil shape how they perceive its problems and imagine their resolutions.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Food Waste: Farm to Fork
An informative and insightful panel event. Learn about the challenges of, potential solutions for, and ... more >> different perspectives on food waste throughout the supply chain. This panel event will feature speakers from Gotham Greens, Nomad Trading Co., and Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. They will have a thoughtful discussion on food waste with time for audience Q&A.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
5:45 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Ernest Briggs: Four Decades of Abstract Expressionism
The exhibition features prominent works from the Briggs estate, which the gallery owns, from the 1950's ... more >> to the 1980's. One painting in the show is from the 1940's and has never been shown before.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Flor Garduño: Trilogy: Photographing the Essence of Mexico
Born in Mexico City, the photographer Flor Garduño takes inspiration from the often solitary and desolate ... more >> landscape of her native country. Although photographs were taken in locations as varied as Mexico, Poland, and Switzerland, her works are greatly influenced by the Mexican master Manuel Álvarez Bravo in their solitude and surrealist overtones. While working under another Mexican photographer who greatly influenced her, Mariana Yampolsky, Garduño developed her own unique style. Garduño’s subjects are indigenous children, women’s bodies, along with the animals and plants that have come to symbolize the sacred, surreal, and magical spirit of Mexican culture. She always works in black and white (never in color) and eschews digital photography, shooting only using film.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | New Work: Paintings by Elliott Puckette
An exhibition of new paintings by the artist Elliott Puckette, her eighth solo exhibition at the gallery. ... more >> With this body of work, the artist challenges herself to push her use of line by first translating it into three dimensions, making ephemeral sculptures out of wire.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Shutter Speed: Group Photography SHow
This group show, curated by Becca Hoffman, the Director of the Outsider Art Fair, presents a variety ... more >> of work inspired by Robert Frank's The Americans.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Unison: Sculptural Photographic Works by Mayumi Lake
In this exhibition, Lake offers a refreshing counterpoint to her previous work by creating a room installation ... more >> where ten imposing "blossom" sculptures are illuminated by a mirror ball. The blossoms are constructed of images scanned from Japanese vintage kimonos for young girls. Lake prints and cuts the floral patterns, reassembling them with toy parts, plastic flowers, imitation gold, sequins, and various other objects, all by hand. As in her usual practice, Lake selects only the materials that recall her own childhood palpably.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Walking in Lightness: Photos by Amanda Gutiérrez
A multisensory presentation of Gutiérrez’s subjective experience as a Mexican woman living and working ... more >> in New York. Gutiérrez uses a range of media to investigate how the conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities. Through the work, Gutiérrez presents a collective culture of the Mexican immigrant; reminding us of the sociopolitical imbalances at the same time emphasizing a broader definition of America.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Works, Projects, Collaborations: An Exhibition by Wendy Ewald
A major exhibition of artist Wendy Ewald’s collaboratie photographic projects. The exhibition features ... more >> over 70 black-and-white vintage prints from seven of Ewald’s earliest projects.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Lecture | Family Matters: Gendering the Labor of Early Modern Science
In early modern Europe, the pursuit of natural knowledge was, in great part, a family enterprise. In ... more >> the course of researching women's contributions to science, and more broadly issues of gender in science, historians of science have begun, over the past several decades, to uncover the numerous ways in which the actual practice of science in fields ranging from astronomy to botany depended on women's unpaid (and often unrecognized) labor. As a number of scholars have shown, wives and daughters frequently made the observations or performed the calculations required to sustain their male relatives' scientific projects. This talk will explore the ways in which, during the early modern period, research projects seem to have become the collective responsibility of entire households across generations, and the ways in which gendered divisions of labor emerged in the process. Speaker Alix Cooper teaches early modern European history and the history of science, medicine, and the environment at SUNY-Stony Brook on Long Island.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Lecture | I Love (Racist) NY: Envisioning Race in the Empire City
In the fall of 2015, a professor of New York City history offered an introductory lecture on that topic ... more >> to a class of some 200 mostly White students at an elite university. He did so by opining that what sets New York City apart from the rest of the nation is its 400-year long history of “diversity and toleration.” One piece of evidence he provided for this claim was visual. He conjured the image of multiply-colored bodies on the subway. Based on ongoing research, this talk examines the ways that visual evidence is summoned to make claims and counter-claims about racism, while also comparing the reception of concrete evidence of racism that is received (or not) aurally. It also shows that claims about New York’s self-proclaimed status as a non-racist haven accord inordinate power to the visual in those realms constituted as quintessentially New York—like the subway—while simultaneously ignoring the visual evidence of racism in other kinds of spaces. With: Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Book Signing | Marisa Bartolucci signs copies of her new book Richard Filipowski: Art & Design Beyond the Bauhaus
Richard Filipowski, a major figure bridging the Bauhaus and American midcentury modernism, finally gets ... more >> his due. Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifted polymaths in the annals of American modernism. Whether as a painter, sculptor, or designer of furniture and jewelry, Filipowski developed a lush, abstract, and amazingly consistent visual language that marks him among the finest figures of midcentury art and design.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Concert | Music in Art Spaces with Terrance McKnight from WQXR and jazz musicians
A special musical performance inspired by the work on view. Hosted by Terrance McKnight and featuring ... more >> musicians Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone) and Joel Ross (vibraphone), this event will take place as part of the Look and Listen Festival, an annual series dedicated to presenting contemporary music in art spaces.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Photographer Susan Wood discusses her book Women: Portraits 1960-2000
A compilation of portraits taken by American photographer Susan Wood of some of the most prominent and ... more >> influential women of the 20th century. Her notable subjects include Diane von Furstenberg, Martha Stewart, Nora Ephron, Alice Waters, Jayne Mansfield, and Gloria Vanderbilt among many others.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Discussion | Resonances: Writers on Writing
It’s called the world’s most solitary occupation, but writers never create entirely on their own. ... more >> The best writing reflects and resonates with stories from the past and the present. In this session, award-winning writers from around the world read from their own work, and works that have influenced them. With Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Alicia Kopf, Xiaolu Guo and Aminatta Forna. Moderated by Bridgett Davis.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | The Art of Photographing the Night Sky
Astrophotography, beyond its purely scientific value, has become an art form in its own right. But both ... more >> creating a photograph of the night sky and the digital processing have their own special challenges. In this lecture, gallery member and astronomer George Greenstein and classical music composer and astrophotographer Preston Stahly will present stunning astronomical images and discuss both their scientific import and the techniques used to make them.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Park Walk | Central Park Brisk Walk
Brisk but sane. About seven miles.This is a regular series in which explore Central Park by foot as the ... more >> work week winds down and then grab something to eat afterwards. After quickly entering the park, head North, across and back down again to Central Park South. They will aim for about a 3mph pace. Please bring a flashlight as it is getting late earlier this time of year.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:15 pm
$3
$3
Discussion | Artists Take the Street! Creativity in Activism
From a single sticky note at a subway stop to the largest one-day protest in U.S. history to mark Trump’s ... more >> inauguration, expressions of public protest can take many forms, with art playing a crucial role. Artists Amy Khoshbin and Tania Bruguera, along with writer A.M. Homes, explore opportunities for creativity in activism, and detail their work, which shares themes of cultural and familial identity, immigration, and human fortitude under extreme duress. They delve into the collaborative project, Word on the Street, curated by Khoshbin, and investigate the symbiotic relationship between art and social change. Moderated by Carmen Hermo Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Dag Solstad, Towering Figure in Scandinavian Literature
Dag Solstad is the author of some 30 books, revered by writers as diverse as Haruki Murakami, Peter Handke, ... more >> and fellow Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard. Critic James Wood describes his work as “utterly hypnotic and utterly humane,” while others rhapsodize about the sparkle and luster of his language. His stature in Norwegian letters is often compared to Philip Roth’s position in American letters. He is joined by writer Lydia Davis, who taught herself Norwegian reading Solstad’s Telemark, and author, literary critic and editor John Freeman, for a conversation that explores the power of contemporary Norwegian literature and Solstad’s own most recent books to be translated into English, T Singer and Armand V.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Slide Lecture | Madame Jumel Collects: The Pioneering Art Collection of Rags-to-Riches New Yorker Eliza Jumel
A presentation by author and art historian Margaret Oppenheimer, author of The Remarkable Rise of Eliza ... more >> Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic, will discuss Mme. Jumel’s art collection--over 240 paintings acquired in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Discussion | Rewriting Painting
The painters Lois Dodd, Thomas Nozkowski, and Philip Taaffe discuss the state and shape of contemporary ... more >> painting with critics Barry Schwabsky, Faye Hirsch, and John Yau.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Screening | The Cinema of May 68: Short Documentaries Filmed in May 1968
A selection of rarely seen short documentaries shot in France in May 1968, showing the events as they ... more >> unfolded in real time in universities, occupied factories, rural France, and on the streets of Paris. These films were collected into a curated collection to mark the 50-year anniversary of May 1968, and have never or rarely been shown in the United States.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music
How can we define the elusive quality of "Italian-ness" in music? This discussion group gives voice and ... more >> vocabulary to our intuitions about Italian music, both instrumental and vocal. You'll listen to music from the sublime Palestrina, pinnacle of the Italian Renaissance; through Monteverdi, Lulli, Cherubini, Puccini, Respighi and more; to John Corigliano and our modern world, naming Italian characteristics and asking whether they stand the test of time. What Makes It Italian is a music listening and discussion group that is open to everyone. It is free and open to the public without regard to participation in the earlier series. Attendance at all meetings, which take place on Tuesdays from April 10 to May 15, is encouraged, as the discussions are cumulative. Led by Gina Crusco, who also guides listening at the Riverdale Y, formerly music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions Opera. Tonight: Lulli/Lully: How a Florentine Defined French Music
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Charles Kaiser discusses his book 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
1968 was the year that defined the decade—Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, ... more >> unprecedented antiwar riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam changed the course of the war. With this political unrest came a breakthrough of American counterculture into the mainstream led by students and protesters alongside the voices of Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, and Bob Dylan.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Discussion | Confounding Expectations: Picturing Addiction
As the current opioid crisis continues to make national headlines, this panel brings together three photographers ... more >> who are finding new ways of depicting addiction: Nina Berman‘s decades-long project looking at the trauma of addiction and the healing potential of collaborative art; Edwin J. Torres’s photographs that show the effects of synthetic marijuana in his own community; and Graham MacIndoe‘s nuanced yet powerful series of self-portraits and environments taken during the years he was addicted to heroin and crack. At a moment when 21 million Americans struggle with addiction, photography now plays a key role in shaping our understanding of this crisis. Moderated by Paul Moakley, deputy photo editor of Time, this panel offers ways in which we can further the conversation beyond what we already know—that America is dealing with its worst addiction epidemic yet.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Discussion | Identity, Transformation, and Freedom: A Conversation Between Novelists Lola Lafon and Christopher Sorrentino
French author Lola Lafon and American novelist Christopher Sorrentino both share a fascination for the ... more >> 1970s, the figure of Patty Hearst–who is at the heart of their novels Mercy Mary Patty (Actes Sud, 2017) and Trances (Simon and Schuster, 2005)–and the collective secret desire to shed one’s skin and start life over again. Their bodies of work explore the meaning of identity, and the role that storytelling plays in our understanding of both ourselves and each other.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Author Reading | Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Drawing on never-before-used archival sources and interviews with significant figures in the crisis, ... more >> Phillips-Fein shows how the 1975 brush with bankruptcy permanently transformed New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
Free
Free
Poetry Reading | Poets Read: Safia Elhillo / Adrian Matejka / Ife-Chudeni Oputa
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). Adrian Matejka ... more >> is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) which won the New York / New England Award. Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa is completing an MFA in Poetry and an MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Lecture | Towards a Social History of Medieval Jewish Marriage: Finding Individuals within Communities
Elisheva Baumgarten of Hebrew University presents a social and religious history of the Jews of medieval ... more >> Northern Europe (1000- 1400), taking pains to include the stories of those who did not write the histories that have reached us. She is the author of several works that focus on women and gender hierarchies, including Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Play | Henry V: Shakespeare from the Public Theater's Mobile Unit
Insulted by the regent of France, Britain’s King Henry V decides to wage war and claim the throne across ... more >> the Channel. But Henry’s charm only distracts the soldiers for so long before the dire stakes of their task calls into question the King’s true motives and direction. Resonating from across the centuries—wherever there may be a kingdom for a stage, and royalty to act—Shakespeare’s drama about invasion, ego and leadership delves into history’s thorniest questions: What makes a person worthy of wearing the crown, and what do they owe the people they lead? Obie Award-winning director Robert O’Hara (Bootycandy, The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2)) brings a warring King and his band of brothers to communities all across New York with the Mobile Unit’s spring production of Henry V.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Andrew Appel, Pianist
Andrew Appel is with Four Nations Ensemble.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Author Reading | Chris Stamey reads from his book A Spy in the House of Loud
Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris ... more >> Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” He takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery’s CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative bands were rewriting the rules.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Juilliard organists perform works by Bach, Saint-Saëns, and more
Program: Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) Victimae Paschali Laudes Camille Saint-Saëns Fantasy in E-flat ... more >> Chen Zhangyi (b. 1984) The Sixth Angel Rachel Laurin (b. 1961) Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Op. 45 selections from Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) Antiphons, Op. 18 David Goode (b. 1971) Concert Fantasy on Themes by Gershwin J.S. Bach Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 "Feux Follets" (arr. Ryan Kennedy) from Liszt's Transcendental Etudes and the Sonata in B Minor Juilliard organists Yuejian Chen, Daniel Ficcari, Ryan Kennedy, Colin MacKnight, Jeremiah Mead, Levente Medveczky, Alexander Pattavina, and Phoon Yu will be performing works on the cathedral's Great Organ.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Concert | Music inspired by art: drawings by renowned Terry Winters and saxophone
A musical performance inspired by the work on view, Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions. A leading figure ... more >> in the art world for four decades, Terry Winters became well known in the 1980s for his materially-conscious drawings and paintings. Through his art Winters desires to make sense, however fictively, of the manner in which the visible world is constructed and received. His drawings of grids, networks, and knots illustrate complex encounters between biological drives, technological systems, and mental processes. Hosted by Terrance McKnight from WQXR and featuring musicians Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone) and Joel Ross (vibraphone), this event will take place as part of the Look and Listen Festival, an annual series dedicated to presenting contemporary music in art spaces.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Suite for Abu Sadiya: A Musical Take on a North African Myth
Brooklyn-based, French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares, French cellist Vincent Segal, and American ... more >> drummer Nasheet Waits reimagine the forgotten Stambeli tradition—a healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia. Boulares and Segal's original compositions form a series of variations on the legend of the hunter Abu Sadiya. In his wandering search for his enslaved daughter, Abu Sadiya danced and sang his sorrow in the streets of Tunis, thus becoming the first musician of Stambeli and personifying the memory of sub-Saharan slaves in Tunisia.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Play | A Respectable Wedding: A Short Play by Bertolt Brecht
The German title of this work literally means the "petit bourgeois wedding." Like other of Brecht’s ... more >> early works, for example Baal, Drums in the Night, and The Threepenny Opera, it is seen as a critique of bourgeois society. Part of the Senior Thesis Festival. Directed by Britt Berke (’18).
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
Free
Free
Comedy Club | Bodega Cat Comedy Show
Bodega Cat is a weekly comedy show brought to you by Kevin Seefried (202 Comedy Festival), Andy Ostroff ... more >> (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and Dane Hanson (Producer of Laughs on FOX). Live Stand-Up Comedy in New York City.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
No cover...
No cover...
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 ... 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
Free...
Free...
Classical Music | NYU Percussion Chamber Music Ensemble performs works by contemporary composers
Program: Andy Akiho (b. 1979) Karakurenai Mark Applebaum (b. 1967) Catfish Bob Becker (b. 1947) Mudra ... more >> Michael Burritt (b. 1962) Fandango 13 Lou Harrison (1917-2003) Song of Queeztecoatl Thomas Kotcheff (b. 1988) Part and Parcel Nico Muhly (b. 1981) Ta and Clap Julia Wolfe (b. 1958) Dark Full Ride
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Comedy Club | Stand up comedy night
Performers: Dante' Nero, Kenny Deforest, Olga Namer, Von DeCarlo, Jared Waters, Jeremy Pinsly, Erik Angel
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
8:00 pm
no cover, no...
no cover, no...
Play | Hotel Cassiopeia: Inside the Mind of an Artist
"Charles L. Mee's dip into the mind and obsessions of the artist Joseph Cornell, is a shimmering confection." ... more >> -- The New York Times Part of the Senior Thesis Festival. Directed by Lauren Cannon (’18).
New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
9:00 pm
Free
Free
Join the Club!
Complimentary Tickets
to shows, concerts ... (CFT Deals!)
Screening | Hit TV Show Screening and Conversation with Cast
Regular Price: $60CFT Member Price: $0.00
Today's Events
All 1126 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.