22 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 2, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
Following the resurgence of social movements challenging the status quo on social inequity and racial ...
more >> inequality, words such as ‘colonialism’, ‘systemic racism’, and ‘access’ remain central in global conversations today and even more so during Black History Month. The essence of this month is to challenge systems of oppression embedded in institutions and knowledge production for the upliftment of Black people. Often considered an import of “American ideologies'', Dr. Angela Davis and Dr. Ann Morning will explore Black History Month as a tool for highlighting the importance of diverse and inclusive conversations about the Black experience and historical knowledge in the global context.
Crazy...or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a ...
more >> mental health crisis. Is it a 'calling' to grow or just a 'broken brain'? This documentary explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience. The director, Phil Borges, and renowned mental health professional Gabor Mate will follow the screening with a panel session. The panel will explore finding meaning through suffering, how indigenous cultures identify "psychotic" symptoms as an indicator of shamanic potential, and the growing severity of the mental health crisis in America dominated by biomedical psychiatry.
Connect with your core self. Step away from your hectic day to quiet your mind and nourish your soul ...
more >> with a thirty-minute meditation experience. Learn simple Kundalini Yoga breathing techniques and meditations that reduce stress, increase your focus, balance your emotions and magnify your presence. With Rita London.
Crazy...or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a ...
more >> mental health crisis. Is it a 'calling' to grow or just a 'broken brain'? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience. Joined by the Director of CRAZYWISE, Phil Borges, and renowned mental health professional Gabor Mate, MD, the event will include a screening of CRAZYWISE followed by a panel session. The panel will explore finding meaning through suffering, how indigenous cultures identify "psychotic" symptoms as an indicator of shamanic potential, and the growing severity of the mental health crisis in America dominated by biomedical psychiatry.
12:30 pm
free, registration required
Jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook. Wurtzel has played ...
more >> worldwide with many jazz legends, including the Count Basie Countsmen, Wild Bill Davis, Bill Doggett, Jimmy McGriff, the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, singers Gloria Lynne and Terri Thornton, as well as Paul Simon. He is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the 20th century. Through books ...
more >> including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. The first biography to explore his life and work, Carole Angier's Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical coldness, saving humour and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait that pushes the boundaries of biography just as its subject pushed the boundaries of fiction.
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This will be a multi-lensed look into the depth, complexity and nuanced work of Stephen Sondheim. What ...
more >> makes this conversation unique is its perspective on Sondheim's vast contributions from both sides of the footlights: hear from theatrical luminaries Joanna Gleason and Donna Murphy, as well as from two leading intellectuals of our time, Dr. Cornel West and American linguist John McWhorter. Moderated by author Jamie Bernstein.
The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protege to investigate hoping ...
more >> to divert attention away from himself. Director: Phil Karlson Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford 82 min.
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A virtual taping of the So to Speak Podcast with Jacob Mchangama, author, in conversation with Greg Lukianoff, ...
more >> Professor Stephen D. Solomon, Sarah McLaughlin, and host Nico Perrino.
Watch the premiere video screening of an oral history with photographer and En Foco founder Charles Biasiny-Rivera. ...
more >> Held in conversation with El Museo del Barrio's Chief Curator Rodrigo Moura and Curator Susanna V. Temkin, Biasiny-Rivera shares details about his childhood growing up in East Harlem and the Bronx, his initial forays into photography, the formation of En Foco, and his experiences taking images in New York City schools.
Chief Curator Claire Gilman, artist Arlene Shechet, and critic and curator Jarrett Earnest have a conversation ...
more >> on the current exhibition Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection, which focuses on the extraordinary drawing collection of artist, curator, and President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Jack Shear.
Roosevelt Montás's newest book aks: what is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized ...
more >> by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. Dominican-born American academic Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities.
A virtual celebration of Radcliffe Bailey’s recent solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, Ascents ...
more >> and Echoes. The Atlanta-based painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist uses rich layerings of imagery, found objects, and text to explore ancestry, race, migration and collective memory. He will be in conversation with architect Mabel O. Wilson, who makes visible the ways that anti-Black racism shapes the built environment, along with the ways Blackness creates spaces of imagination, refusal, and desire.
Experience how they teach online so you know what you can expect. This is a complimentary, one hour, ...
more >> online trial class for adults. Start times: 6:30pm. 8:00pm
Performance artist and magician Derek DelGaudio celebrates the paperback release of latest book. Truth ...
more >> and lies are two sides of the same coin. But who’s flipping it? A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction from one of the world's leading deceivers, the creator and star of the astonishing theater show and film In & Of Itself.
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrice Cullors, discusses her framework for how everyday activists ...
more >> and organizers can help re-imagine a world where communities are treated with dignity, care, and respect.
In Charmaine Wilkerson’s exquisitely evocative debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their ...
more >> differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. New York Times bestselling novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid joins Wilkerson to discuss her gripping, heartbreaking story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names, can shape relationships and history.
Renée Branum's exuberant, wildly inventive debut about a young woman fascinated by her ancestors' legendary ...
more >> "falling curse" and trying to keep her own family from falling apart.
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A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of ...
more >> accusations against her professor husband by former students--a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own... With this bold, edgy, and uncommonly assured debut, author Julia May Jonas takes us into charged territory, where the boundaries of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart. Propulsive, darkly funny, and wildly entertaining, Vladimir perfectly captures the personal and political minefield of our current moment, exposing the nuances and the grey area between power and more
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On February 2, 1922, James Joyce turned 40 and his book Ulysses was published. Experimental and genre-defying, ...
more >> it would go on to become a defining piece of modernist literature and continues to beguile and amaze readers 100 years later. We are thrilled to welcome back Joyce expert Robert J. Seidman, along with Sarah Cole, to reflect on the legacy of Ulysses, its impact on modernism, and its lasting relevance.
When critically acclaimed author Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts wrote a piece for The Washington ...
more >> Post on Black joy in the early days of the pandemic, she had no idea it would resonate with countless people across the U.S. One moment of ecstatic, untrammeled laughter shared with her young daughter unleashed a powerful cascade of healing, affirmative joy that she contended was essential to resisting the pervasive dehumanization faced by Black folks every day. Lewis-Giggetts refracts this idea through a timely collection of intimate, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate Black joy as a tool for personal and collective healing, whether racism is conquered or not.