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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 20, 2016?

39 free events take place on Wednesday, April 20 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 20 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 20, 2016

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Workshop | Park Boot Camp


Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp in the park. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back--and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
Free

City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Stefan Schilli: Oboe Master Class


Stefan Schilli studied at the conservatories in Trossingen and Karlsuhe, before becoming solo oboist with the Bavarien Radio Symphony orchestra in 1991- at the young age of 20. He won the Prague Spring International Mucis Competition as well as the ARD International Mucis Competition in 1996 , after having already triumphed at the German Music Competition in 1993. Stefan Schilli ranks among the leading oboists of his generations and the meanwhile performs on all great concert stages all over the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Author Reading | Edmund White reads from his book Our Young Man


Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Jack Holmes and His Friend. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence


A lunchtime lecture by Amber Hollibaugh. Queer precarity is a reality. As the wealth gap continues to grow, the particular struggles of queer and gender non-conforming people remain sidelined, both in scholarly work and in the LGBTQ and labor movements. Class, race, the erotic, gender identity, sexuality, desire: How are these issues intertwined and interlocked in our analysis and in our organizing?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Jonathan Cohen, Jazz Vocalist


Jazz singer Jonathan Cohen from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program will be performing. Program TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two. This event recurs on April 6, 11, 20 and 25.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Wednesdays at One: Juilliard Chamber Music


Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts throughout the season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Numbers for Mac Workshop


Get acquainted with Apple's powerful spreadsheet application that gives you everything you need to create ledgers, reports, and graphs that help you visualize or present your data. Work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices, as well as with colleagues, friends, and family who use Microsoft Excel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Antoine Tamestit: Viola Master Class


“His playing was distinguished by a lightness and rhythmic buoyancy that illuminated the varied dance characteristics of the suites. His crisp, spry sound in the faster movements became meltingly beautiful in the slower sections, like the Sarabande of the first suite; the whole work was enhanced by his graciously nuanced phrasing.” - New York Times, August 2014
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Strings Master Class: Bonnie Hampton


Bonnie Hampton is on the cello faculty at The Juilliard School.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:45 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Zixi Zhou piano 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Vocal Improvisation Ensemble 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM - Denis Savelyev, flute 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM - Yuval Gilad, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Other | Wine and Spirits Tastings


Free tastings at a boutique retailer specializing in fine wines and craft spirits, and has one of the largest grower champagne selections in New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Artist Talk: Louise Fishman


Painting, scraping, repainting, and texturing are all part of Louise Fishman’s artistic process. Her resulting works feel at once energetic and orderly, celebratory and reverent. The book Louise Fishman accompanies the first-ever museum survey of Fishman’s large-scale gestural abstractions as well as a concurrent exhibition devoted to the artist’s lesser-known work in small-scale painting and sculpture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Estate and Gift Planning Workshop


Director of Planned Giving John Bacon will present estate planning concepts in easy-to-understand terms, in a relaxed and encouraging environment, free of charge. The seminar will cover such topics as: • Federal and New York estate and gift taxes: what is taxed and what is not taxed • Wills vs. living trusts • Your retirement plan’s hidden taxes • Passing assets on to heirs without gift and estate taxes • Avoiding capital gains taxes on appreciated stock and generating additional income
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Ida Kavafian, violin


This special event provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and great artists as they examine and explore the arts of performance on the highest level.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Irresistible Resistance: Earth Week 2016


In celebration of Earth Week, the Tishman Environment and Design Center is drawing inspiration from the growing unification of movements for climate justice, the deepening of transnational solidarity movements across the globe and the creative expressions of people and communities determined to achieve solutions to the climate crisis on their own terms. They are celebrating the idea that artists and young people are the very heart of the struggle for resistance and resilience and that “artists make resistance irresistible.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Advance Screening of the Season 3 Premiere of Turn: Washington's Spies


Join a panel with the cast and creators of AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies, followed by a special advance screening of the Season 3 premiere, which returns to AMC on April 25. Season 3 builds towards one of the most notorious moments in American history - the treasonous defection of Benedict Arnold. 6:30 pm: Enjoy music and images from the series and mingle with guests 7:00 pm: Panel with Executive Producers Barry Josephson and Craig Silverstein, author Alexander Rose and actors Jamie Bell, Heather Lind, Ian Kahn, and Owain Yeoman 7:45 pm: Screening of "Valediction," the Season 3 premiere
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Art for Every Home


With Kara Fiedorek, graduate curatorial assistant and PhD candidate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | French Comedy: Yann Samuel's Love Me If You Dare (2003)


Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe. A love story between two psychopaths turns into a dare-or-not-dare game. 90 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Iraida López discusses her book Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora


Since travel restrictions from the United States to Cuba began to ease, thousands of Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans have been able to reunite with family and visit their homeland. Yet the subject of return in the Cuban diaspora remains understudied. In her one-of-a-kind book, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by the one-and-a-half generation—those who left Cuba as children or adolescents—and the ways in which the desire for homecoming is manifested both abroad and inside Cuba.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Michal Ben-Naftali reads from her new book Chronicle of Separation


A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in-and as-deconstruction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Vincent Ong Lung Law, tenor 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Juan Nicolas Morales Espitia, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | Terry Williams discusses his book Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition


This visual lecture focuses on the large role that superintendents play in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood. Through ethnographic fieldwork, it illustrates daily life of superintendents in the lower Harlem area. in New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | The Poets of the Cave Canem Writers Center


Cave Canem is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. This event features E. Ethelbert Miller, Jarita Davis, Camille Rankine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Daniel Paisner discusses his novel A Single Happened Thing


It's the late Nineties on the Upper West Side and book publicist David Felb can sense his world shrinking. He is stuck in the slow lane at ''a venerable second-tier publishing house'' and feeling the encroaching changes technology will bring as he struggles to maintain a bond with his wife and three young daughters. Into the void steps Fred ''Sure Shot'' Dunlap, a tweed-clad, waxed-mustached nineteenth-century baseball legend with still impeccable timing who died penniless and obscure and seems to need something from Felb.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Derek Lee Ragin, One of the Foremost Countertenosr of Our Day


In great demand as a master of Baroque vocal style, Ragin is also an inspired interpreter of contemporary music. His performances of such diverse repertoire are characterized by an unusual warmth and expressivity, and he has received unanimous accolades from critics and audiences throughout the world. His was the voice of Farinelli in the film about the famed 18th century castrato which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film in 1995. The soundtrack won the Golden Record award the following year in Cannes. Italian arias by Handel, American spirituals, and a world premiere by Jonathan Dawe. With Mark Markham, piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Nora Zelevansky reads from her book Will You Won't You Want Me?


Nora Zelevansky crafts a funny and surprising novel about growing up when you're supposed to be grown. Marjorie Plum was queen bee in high school. Now, 10 years later, she's lost her sparkle. At her bleakest, she's surprised by a childhood crush and bickering with her boss grows into flirtatious banter. She must make a choice between the life she dreamed of and one she never imagined.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson's In Search of UIQ (2013): Documentary on Filmmaking Attempt


A movie that endeavours to not only reconstruct Felix Guattari’s aborted attempt at making the film >Meta – with voice-overs from the script and Guattari himself, protracted sequences on computer screens and a noirish procedural on other recent UIQ-inspired productions – but to meditate on the political, social and cinematic milieu of the late 1970s through the mid-80s, when the possibilities of financing and realizing such an abstruse film on an international level were deemed feasible. Filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson will be there in person.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Wayne Pacelle reads from his book The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals


A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of The Bond.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Writers Read: Robert Marshall / Mathew Sharpe / Wendy Walters


Robert Marshall is the author of the novel A Separate Reality. His writing has appeared in Salon, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Blue Lake Review, and Ducts. His artwork is currently on view at Baxter ST at CCNY. His visual art has been exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. He is currently completing a biography of Carlos Castaneda. Matthew Sharpe's novels include You Were Wrong, Jamestown, The Sleeping Father, and Nothing is Terrible. He is the author of the short story collection Stories from the Tube. He has recently completed a collection of very short stories, some of which can be found on the blog Very Short Stories R Us. He has taught at Columbia, Wesleyan, Bard, and the Pratt Institute. Wendy Walters is the author of three collection of poetry, Troy,Michigan, Longer I Wait, More You Love Me, and Binds of Los Angeles. Her essay collection Multiply/Divide was released last year by Sarabande Book. Her work has appeared in Harpers, The Seattle Review, The Iowa Review, and Bookforum. She teaches at the New School.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Alexander Kobrin, Van Cliburn-Winning Pianist


Alexander Kobrin (born 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist. In June 2005 he won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Kobrin maintains an extensive schedule of engagements in Europe and Asia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Mix Nouveau: New Works for Strings


A collaboration of strings and composition. Stephanie Baer and Tae Hong Park, Directors. From the Programs in String Studies and Composition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: Cracker by Reese Thompson


Three disadvantaged siblings escape from a white supremacist cult and are adopted by a well-to-do interracial gay couple – all while trying to avoid the wrath of a vengeful Prophet. Set in a world where the “white tears” are real, Cracker is a white identity play that attempts to answer the question: Who the hell are you? This event occurs April 20-23.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Photoshop for Beginners


Learn how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this class you learn the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to manipulate images to your desire. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Jazz | Zach Kirsimae, Cosmic Jazz of Sounds and Textures


Zach Kirsimae will channel the ancient spirits of music as they help guide him on the night of his senior recital through a cosmic voyage of sounds and textures. Music of all shapes and sizes will be performed. Your presence will help direct the musical energy to travel to unknown destinations. he warmly welcomes you to join him on this special night with his talented band of fellow musical philosophers, as he embarks on a new life journey. With: Isak Gaines – Tenor Saxophone/Bass Clarinet Billy Duffy – Trombone Alex Frondelli – Guitar Jack Gruber – Piano Will Brenseke – Drums Zach Kirsimae – Bass/Composition
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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