53 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 13, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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.
Learn the basics of Adobe's vector graphic creation program and how to create exciting digital art for ...
more >> print, video, and web Class is taught on Mac computers.
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
Join a tour of the current exhibitions with Valérie Rousseau, the museum’s curator for self-taught ...
more >> art and art brut. Meet in the museum atrium.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
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.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
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This spring, artists and their collaborators will develop new projects during a residency period that ...
more >> encourages peer exchange by hosting multiple artists in studios and theaters concurrently. Artists invite audiences into the studio for a glimpse of the creative process and an opportunity to see works in varying stages of development. 1PM / John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio Netta Yerushalmy Project: Paramodernities: a series of eight dance experiments meditating on modernism within and beyond the purview of dance. 2PM / Studio 4B Dana Lyn Project: Theatrical staging of Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne in collaboration with Irish writer Louis de Paor. More Info 3PM / Rudolph Nureyev Studio Dorothée Munyaneza (pictured) Project: Unwanted: a dance work drawing from her personal story, the diversity of her cultural heritage, and her appetite for encounters. 4PM / John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio Muna Tseng Project: IT'S ALL TRUE / GRANDFATHER: A portrait of myth, object, and dialogue with real and imagined ancestors. 5:30PM / Jerome Robbins Theater Victor Quijada Project: Baumann Project: a dance work exploring themes of identity, origin, homeland, and incorporating the scenic architecture of Sylvain Baumann.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule. Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. ...
more >> He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature. A Dutch intelligence officer recruits an allied woman ...
more >> to act as liaison with dashing Resistance leader 'The Scarf' for a British attack on Arnhem. 108 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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. This tour takes place daily.
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.
Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected ...
more >> love of dance and the disintegration of his family. 110 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest ...
more >> mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly. Tour takes place every Thursday.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include using formulas and functions, ...
more >> data sorting and conditional formatting.
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A talk by Maria A. Cabrera Arus. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the Q&A session.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Annika Brynn-Lascara Jerkins, Violin 4 p.m. Fifi Zhang, Piano 6 p.m. Zachary Hann, Clarinet 6 p.m. ...
more >> Mikaela Bennett, Soprano 8 p.m. Anthony Charles Bracewell, Viola 8 p.m.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson. A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons ...
more >> investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. 112 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:55 pm
free, no reservation required
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Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with a guided ...
more >> tour. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Fabio Alvarez, piano 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM MSM Contemporary Opera Ensemble 7:30 PM ...
more >> - 9:30 PM MSM Mingus Ensemble
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Vera Iliatova: In Between - A selection of new floral and figurative dreamscapes paintings. Sarah McEneaney: ...
more >> Land, Sea, Sleep - Autobiographical acrylic paintings, including interiors, landscapes and self-portraits from her travels to the Grand Canyon, Cape Cod, and the County Mayo in Ireland.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An exhibition examining the images produced by the Department of Tropical Research during their pioneering ...
more >> ecological expeditions to South America and the Caribbean in the first half of the 20th century. Sixty historical drawings produced by a variety of artists in collaboration with the DTR’s scientists will be exhibited for the first time, alongside two new major installations by artist Mark Dion, which will recreate with great detail the DTR’s field labs for both their jungle and aquatic missions.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Infoesque includes Expanding and Remaining (2016), a series of thirty six panel paintings that use ISIS’ ...
more >> online English-language magazine, Dabiq, as their source material, and Infoesque (2017), a new series of larger works on canvas that explore the design strategies of Rumiyah magazine, which took over the propaganda mantel when Dabiq ceased publication in October 2016.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Using vintage cameras, non-traditional processing and film as his medium, award-winning photographer, ...
more >> Jeffrey Shagawat has created a unique style all his own. With such a range of subject and technique, his body of work is not easy to categorize. However, all of his photos from cross processed nudes to black and white street art to grim self-portraits, maintain a powerful through-line of beauty, grit and unabashed honesty.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Featuring highly experimental prints from over 20 Icelandic artists, including the Icelandic punk pioneer ...
more >> Megas and an artist book by Björk, Other Hats an exploration of when and how multidisciplinary artists turn to printmaking. With an acoustic set by Megas.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
As a writer, director, lyricist, and producer, and one of the founders of the influential experimental ...
more >> theatre company, Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer has produced a body of work that includes new forms of playwriting, rewritings of the classics, electronic media, music theatre, American standards, and plays with puppets. Breuer’s body of work reflects the crossovers between theatre, visual arts, dance, poetry, puppetry, and literature in contemporary performance.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Frank Stella (b.1936 in Malden, MA, USA) began his career with his renowned Black Paintings. Precursors ...
more >> to Minimalism, four were included in MoMA’s Sixteen Americans1959 exhibition. In 1960, Stella had his first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. Throughout his career he has been included in major influential exhibitions at galleries and Museums around the world. In 1970, Stella became the youngest artist to receive a full-scale retrospective at MoMA, and was honored by a second retrospective at MoMA in 1987, an act unprecedented for a living artist. In 1983, he was appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. In 1986, these lectures were published under the title Working Space. Stella is the recipient of honorary degrees from Princeton, Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Dartmouth College and the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany. In 1989, he received the Ordre des Arts et des Letters from the French government. He was elected Honorary Royal Academician in 1993. In 2000, Stella was first American to have a dedicated gallery space within the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in London. Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2009. In 2012, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany exhibited a retrospective of Stella’s works. A retrospective of Mr. Stella works was on view at the Whitney Museum of Art in 2015 traveled to Fort Worth & San Francisco in 2016. An exhibition of new work will open at Marianne Boesky Gallery, May 2017. He lives and works in New York City. In this intimate, one-on-one conversation, Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning architectural critic and Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at Parsons, will engage Frank Stella on his life and work.
This presentation discusses the changing landscape of street gangs in Manhattan and describes the consequences ...
more >> of gang involvement. Presented by New York County District Attorney’s Office.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The definitive guide to the optimum diet for health and wellness, from the founder of Whole Foods Market.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Speaker Meg Jacobs teaches American History and Politics at Princeton University. Her latest book explores ...
more >> how the energy crisis shocked the country and forever changed American politics. If Vietnam and Watergate taught citizens that their leaders could not be trusted, the energy crisis taught them that government did not work. With long gas lines and soaring prices, the oil shocks of the decade undermined confidence in Washington to solve problems.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A workshop with Win Sheffield. The whole process of a job campaign is unfamiliar, unpleasant and ambiguous. ...
more >> It does not have to be so burdensome and can be approached following simple steps using our strengths.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In his latest mission to capture stunning aerial views of land, sea, and wildlife, Zack Seckler took ...
more >> to the skies above South Africa for seven days from dawn until dusk in a tiny, single-propeller, light-sport aircraft. His abstract, minimalist photographs offer an extraordinary perspective of some of the planet’s most remote locations. Seckler used the maneuverability of the small plane to his greatest advantage, instructing the pilot to fly precisely to locations which caught his interest. Describing the experience and the photographs produced: “I liken it to being over a giant canvas and being able to create brushstrokes. . .” He continues: “From elevations between 50 and 500 feet, the landscape hovers on the line between things looking very real and recognizable and being more abstract. That’s what really draws me in—the line between reality and abstraction.” Deliberately avoiding the horizon and often shooting from the plane window at an angle perpendicular to the ground adds to the disorientation of the curious, two-dimensional images. Other completed bodies of work include aerial landscapes of Iceland and Botswana.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate ...
more >> about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation.
6:15 pm
free, no reservation required
The exhibition features conversations with the next wave of music icons, whose artistic expression and ...
more >> high powered community is paving a new path for musical freedom, marginalized voices and social revolt This 4-week multimedia immersive exhibition, in the heart of historic Harlem at La Maison d’Art gallery, features video installations and music from #realmusicrebels. Featuring: Music artists Marcus Gilmore, Christian Scott, Samora Pinderhughes, Logan Richardson, Keyon Harrold, MelodiousFly, Burniss Earl Travis II
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A short comedy that follows an adolescent trans woman as she sets out to reconnect with her amnesic mother ...
more >> after presenting female. When the two meet again for the first time as women, they are protected by their new identities and find a best friend in each other. They also find an opportunity to step outside their prescribed roles of mother and son and to evolve into personalities that are closer to their core. Following the film will be a Q&A with the director, Juan Carlos Zaldivar.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn how to use a brush pen to write Chinese calligraphy with an experience instructor. No Chinese language ...
more >> knowledge required. Library will provide supplies. This class repeats Thursday evenings in March and April.
Editor Vincent Katz will introduce the book, followed by readings by Elaine Equi and Eileen Myles.
New York City, NY; NYC
The first collection of its kind to bring together critical essays on Elena Ferrante's writings, this ...
more >> volume provides original research exploring a range of topics including women's relationships, gender, motherhood, and feminist theory, while Offering a multi-faceted approach to Ferrante's oeuvre through literary, cultural, and psychoanalytic approaches.
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Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large at Merriam-Webster, and Ammon Shea, digital content editor at Merriam-Webster, ...
more >> present a talk on the challenges and changes in current lexicography, and on what the data from a digital book can tell us about the role that the dictionary plays in the lives of today’s word-searchers.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Are you a Mac, PC... or neither? Learn about the differences between Apple's Mac computers and Windows ...
more >> PCs by exploring the advantages and limitations of each platform.
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Since Asimov’s launched in the spring of 1977, it has published groundbreaking fiction by writers like ...
more >> Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Joe Haldeman, Connie Willis, Roger Zelazny, Kim Stanley Robinson, and many, many others. Asimov’s also published very early works by Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Letham, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, and dozens of other nascent writers who are now well-known authors. Today, theycontinue the tradition of unearthing exciting new voices and publishing their work alongside some of SF and fantasy’s most famous authors. Join an evening celebrating the 40th anniversary with lively readings from James Patrick Kelly, Sarah Pinsker, Suzanne Palmer, Alexander Jablokov, and Cadwell Turnbull. With complimentary drinks and snacks.
David Leite, the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria, presents ...
more >> his heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, yet tender memoir of growing up, accepting himself and turning his love of food into an award-winning career. Notes on a Banana is a candid, courageous and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness and sexual identity.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Meet Phil Snyder: new father, nursing assistant at a cutting-edge biotech facility on Staten Island, ...
more >> and all-around decent guy. Trouble is, his life is falling apart. His wife has betrayed him, his job involves experimental surgeries with strange side effects, and his father is hiding early-onset dementia. Phil also has a special talent he doesn’t want to publicize—he’s a mind reader and moonlights as Brainstorm, a costumed superhero.
One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America’s pastime ...
more >> during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport—fairness, competition, and mythology—came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures to overgrown boys, the arrival of the everyman Mets and their free-spirited fans, and the lawsuit brought against team owners by Curt Flood.
In Dr. Karen R. January's book, follow the stories of 10 women who missed out on those important lessons ...
more >> Mama never taught them about morals, values, self-esteem and how they fell into darkness because of it. Find out how they survived, the healing process and the personal lessons they learned.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A phenomenal discourse on why poverty exists when there is so much wealth in the world. A must-see for ...
more >> anyone wanting to understand not only the US economic system but the foundations of today's global economy. 106 min. Complimentary refreshments will be available.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Maureen McLane is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Mz N: the serial: a poem-in-episodes ...
more >> (FSG, 2016), as well as This Blue (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014) and My Poets (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012), a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A “rock star of downtown dance” (Dance Magazine), the Zimbabwean-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer ...
more >> nora chipaumire uses her choreography to challenge and embrace stereotypes of Africa and the black performing body. With self-un-contained, chipaumire will continue her investigation into portraiture and self-portraiture, focusing on the representation of black identities in a digital Snapchat world. Taking the form of an impromptu digital broadcast, a glamorous fashion runway, and a pamphlet in movement, this performance will demonstrate Africans’ strong abilities to proclaim life and liberty and to pursue happiness with their swag.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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.