66 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 27, 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 how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. ...
more >> 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.
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson. Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition ...
more >> into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. 103 min.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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
If you have been collecting the information, now it is time to shape your genealogy research into a cohesive ...
more >> family history for others to read. Learn the different types of family history writing styles and explore the writing manuals that will match your writing style. Explore the history of the places where your family lived, tips for creating a cohesive narrative, and why writing a family history is the ultimate goal of genealogy research.
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
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.
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ...
more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
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
Share your passion for gaming the old-fashioned way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles ...
more >> keep you going, then Scrabble is your game! Are you a chess or checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join them for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
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.
Stars: John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug. When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, ...
more >> he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. 108 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney. Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the ...
more >> unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a life outside the ring, or will Maish find a way to exploit him one more time? 95 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien. Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator ...
more >> Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. 97 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...
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A lecture by Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Comparitve Literature and Women's and Gender Studies.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Yihui Liu, Piano 4 p.m. Gabriel Yoshina Schnider, Jazz Guitar 6 p.m. Samantha Hankey, Mezzo Soprano ...
more >> 6 p.m. Ariel Horowitz, Violin 8 p.m. Ari Evan, Cello 8 p.m.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Cynthia Hoffmann, Vocal Performance 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Opera Preview 7:30 PM - 9:00 ...
more >> PM MSM Brass Ensemble
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Historical parallels abound in Sana Krasikov’s new novel, The Patriots, about three generations of ...
more >> an American family who emigrate in reverse from the US to Russia. Reviewers have called the book alarmingly relevant to our political moment. Krasikov will talk about her efforts to decode the vernacular of autocracy, and how writing the story of Americans lost in Russia felt uncomfortably close to home. Sana Krasikov was born in Ukraine and grew up in Georgia and the United States. Her story collection One More Year won a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation, and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. It was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award and for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Prize. Her latest novel, The Patriots, explores the effects of the Cold War on three generations of one American family, from the 1930s to the present.
4:10 pm
free, no reservation required
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
4:55 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A panel discussion with Professor Keith Darden (American University), Miriam Elder (Buzzfeed World News), ...
more >> and Dr. Katy Pearce (University of Washington).
5:00 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
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Santo Loquasto is USITT’s 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award winner in Scene Design and Technology. ...
more >> Loquasto has some 430 projects to his credit in his 52-year career. He has been nominated for Oscars for costumes and production design for three Woody Allen films. He has also designed for the Metropolitan Opera and the Chicago Lyric Opera and for dance at the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the National Ballet of Canada.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:45 pm
free, no reservation required
Attenuated elongated leaves are reaching up, stretching, radiating, curling, twisting, waving, emerging ...
more >> from gnarled, ribbed trunks. Carol Goebel evokes the natural world of plant life in wood fired clay. The kiln produces swaths of fire that striate the trunks and leaves with brownish purples, greens and yellows. Some sculptures have diffuse shooting leaves while in others, single leaflets sprout from decayed mottled stalks. As counterpoint, also displayed are vibrant, subtly colored pastel paintings that echo the sculptures' starker lines. Carlyle Chaudruc Upson continues her exploration of watercolor grass painting in a series inspired by hiking in Asia and the United States. These linear paintings, created in a very gestural manner, explore the varied and kinetic texture of grasses as they move in the wind.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Artists: Richard Artschwager / David Baskin / Lawrence Berzon / Julien Bismuth / Richard Bosman / Barbara ...
more >> Ess / Terence Gower / Dorothea Lange / Louise Lawler / Sherrie Levine / Paul McCarthy / Bill Owens / Gordon Parks / Heidi Schlatter / Claudia Sohrens / Steel Stillman
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This is an exhibition of three films by artist Cameron Jamie, spanning a decade of work. This installation ...
more >> marks the first time that Jamie has programmed these films, including BB (1998-2000), Kranky Klaus (2002-2003), and Massage the History (2007-2009), to focus on the theme of the home as a site of intersection between public and private rituals.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A discussion and signing with Faith Salie (NPR, Fox News) and Jancee Dunn for a discussion and signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Pierluigi Billone - Equilibrio. Cerchio (2014) for violin solo [North American Premiere] Viola ...
more >> Yip - New Work (2017) for viola d'amore solo Joel Rust - New Work (2017) for viola d'amore and electronics Marco Fusi is an Italian violinist and violist and a passionate advocate for the music of our time. Among many collaborations with established and emerging composers, he has recently premiered works by Billone, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Eotvos, Cendo, and Ferneyhough. Fusi has performed with Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Beat Furrer, David Robertson, and frequently plays with leading contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Linea, Interface (Frankfurt), Phoenix (Basel), Handwerk (Koln).
Sugatarium explores the uncontrollable and insanely addictive hold sugar has on us. In these troubled ...
more >> and unsettled times – where nothing seems to make sense – artist Peter Anton heightens the delirium by transforming the gallery into a Sugatarium. He describes the transformed space as “an asylum that is locked up and long forgotten. Visitors must sneak into the Sugatarium through an open window. Institutional beds await the new ‘patients’ where they can rest and view the artwork while confronting their own dependence on sweets.” At the exhibition opening, for their own safety, visitors will only be allowed to speak with Anton through a glass partition via a phone intercom system. Monumental-sized, vibrant, and hyper-realistic sculptures – including a cherry pie, an ice cream sundae, cake, macarons, and other sugary treats – will be smashed, mushed, splattered, broken and thrown throughout the space. Anton’s sculptures are highly detailed and hand-crafted from carefully selected and manipulated materials, including resin, plaster, wood, clay, aluminum, and acrylic and oil paints.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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In an extraordinary soup kitchen in Milan, two vastly different worlds have been brought together by ...
more >> a unique social experiment. Theater of Life captures the remarkable relationship forged between the finest haute cuisine chefs in the world and the city's most disadvantaged groups: refugees, recovering drug addicts, former sex workers, and a host of others with no place else to go. 93 min.
Painter Ari Roussimoff will be speaking about Masonic symbolism in his paintings. White wine and water ...
more >> will be served. Photo ID is required to enter.
The South Asian Women’s Creative Collective is pleased to present its 20th anniversary visual arts ...
more >> exhibition, guest curated by Saisha Grayson. The exhibition takes over all three gallery spaces, and features thirteen artists and collectives from throughout the diaspora, working across artistic media to investigate the resonances found in an archival past on the contingencies of the present.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
In this talk, Al Pittampalli will discuss how to prioritize decisions so you’re focusing on the ones ...
more >> that matter as well as critical steps for making the best decision possible.
A lecture by Ivan Jablonka, Professor of contemporary history at the Université Paris-XIII-Nord and ...
more >> a novelist. His latest book, Laëtitia ou La fin des hommes (Seuil, 2016), takes up a news item story of a girl’s murder as an object of historical study and analyzes her life story as a “social fact.” It received the Renaudot and Goncourt Prizes, the Prix Médicis, the Prix Le Monde and the Prix des prix littéraires.
This illustrated lecture 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.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
In today’s constantly connected world, bringing some calm to a crowded mind can be difficult. Meditating ...
more >> for just a few minutes a day can make you happier, healthier, and reduce the stress of daily life. Our simple, convenient approach is rooted in history, based in science and comes with some serious benefits. Join us and experience the many benefits of meditation firsthand. In this class, you will: Be taught the basics of meditation and how to start a daily practice Learn more about the effects of meditation on the mind and body Understand how meditation can reduce stress at work and beyond
Each year the German Translation Fund organizes several workshops around the world focused on translating ...
more >> from German into one particular language and vice versa. This year for the first time, one of these ViceVersa week-long workshops is taking place in the United States with five German-to-English translators and five English-to-German translators, led by Shelley Frisch and Karen Nölle. In conjunction with this workshop, Frisch and Nölle will host a panel on current directions in literary translation, and workshop participants will present from new translations in progress. The evening will provide a window into what it means to spend most-- or all-- of one's waking hours contemplating texts in one language and recreating them in new linguistic garb.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Experience an evening you will long remember as high school students reenact critical moments from the ...
more >> lives of local Holocaust survivors. This unique performance represents an intergenerational journey – the culmination of months of collaboration between the students and survivors, as mutual respect, friendship, and trust have evolved.
Reflecting on his family's immigration legacy, the filmmaker confronts the delicate images of a once ...
more >> intact family. 86 min. In English and Cantonese with English subtitles.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Actress Jenna von Oy, known for her roles on Blossom and The Parkers, looked for a best-friend's guide ...
more >> to pregnancy, but only found clinical guides. She addressed that in her first book. Now, with two toddlers, she knows that each year of motherhood brings even more comedy and chaos! Filled with humor and reassurance, this book will guide moms through the topsy-turvy world of life with toddlers.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547 Alexander Pattavina, organ WIDOR Allegro from ...
more >> Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 42 Alessandro Pittorino, organ CAGE Souvenir ROREM Why and Because Daniel Ficarri, organ REUBKE Fugue from Sonata in C Minor Patrick Kreeger, organ RAVEL (trans. Kennedy) Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit Ryan Kennedy, organ BRUHNS Praeludium in G Major Colin MacKnight, organ DUPRÉ Three Antiphons, Op. 18 Yuejian Chen, organ DVORÁK (trans. Lemare) Carnival Overture, Op. 92 Greg Zelek, organ
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
As a player, Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel’s contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, ...
more >> and Christy Mathewson... and he was the only person in history to wear the uniforms of all four New York teams: the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets. For more than five glorious decades, Stengel was the undisputed, quirky, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball -- and along the way he revolutionized the role of manager while winning a spectacular ten pennants and seven World Series Championships. But for a man who spent so much of his life in the limelight -- an astounding fifty-five years in professional baseball -- Stengel remains an enigma. Acclaimed baseball historian and bestselling author Marty Appel digs into Casey Stengel’s quirks and foibles, unearthing a tremendous trove of baseball stories, perspective, and history. Weaving in never-before-published family
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A screening of the Cannes Grand Prix, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning motion picture Son of Saul ...
more >> (Saul fia) on the occasion of the National Remembrance Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. The film is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944, and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, a hermetically sealed work unit of Nazi death camp prisoners, who were forced to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during the Holocaust. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the lead actor of the film, Géza Röhrig, who for the first time will present the film in his native language in New York. The film will be in Hungarian with English subtitles.
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...
Alex Dimitrov's latest collection is Together and By Ourselves (Copper Canyon, 2017). Joanna Klink is ...
more >> most recently the author of Excerpts from a Secret Prophesy (Penguin Books, 2015). Mark Wunderlich’s third volume of poems is The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press, 2014).
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Honoring the best books of 2016, the Publishing Triangle presents the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, ...
more >> the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. The Publishing Triangle partners with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Leadership Award are also presented.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described by The New York Times as “one of the most ...
more >> accomplished and adventurous groups in new music,” has premiered over 500 compositions, mostly by emerging composers, since its founding in 2001. To reshape the way that music is created and shared, ICE is striving to create a radically accessible online archive, where composers, performers, and audiences can discover new works and share their thoughts about how music is composed, performed, and heard. ICE comes to the Library, seeking your help with this revolutionary archive. Join us for an interactive concert, where ICE collects your responses to vocalist Tony Arnold's world premiere performance of a new work by the acclaimed composer Chaya Czernowin.
Four authors discuss the joys and challenges of pregnancy and motherhood while fulfilling careers in ...
more >> writing and journalism. With: JORDAN REID ERIN WILLIAMS YLONDA GAULT CAVINESS EMILY GOULD
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Following a yearlong curriculum, students of the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry perform ...
more >> pieces from the first-source material that inspired historian Howard Zinn’s seminal works.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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After a televised intervention goes off the rails, three friends go to extreme measures to take things ...
more >> into their own hands. HATEWATCH is an exploration of the connection between art and commerce, torture, manipulation, friendship, pornography, and cheese dip. This show is very experimental in nature and rated "R". Written by Ellen Steves.
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Program: Luna Pearl Woolf - Rumi: Quatrains of Love (2012) Robert Paterson - Arias from Three Way (2017) ...
more >> Robert Maggio - Forgetfulness Robert Paterson - In Real Life (New York Premiere) Vocal works by living American composers Robert Paterson, Luna Pearl Woolf and Robert Maggio. Featuring singers Wes Mason, Sam Levine, Jordan Rutter, Marnie Breckenridge and the American Modern Ensemble.
Cellist Julia Biber has performed around the world as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. ...
more >> She received her Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Richard Aaron and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music as a student of Barbara Stein Mallow. In addition, Julia earned a Professional Studies certificate from the Manhattan School of Music where she was a student of Julia Lichten.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Sibelius’ Duo for Violin and Viola in C Major Liszt’s Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia ...
more >> quasi Bloch's Sonata for Solo Piano, Concertino for Flute, Viola and Piano Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, op 13 The Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, will perform. Featured performers are Emilie-Anne Gendron and Anna Elashvili, violins; Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viol;, Sean Katsuyama, cello; Orion Weiss, piano; and Soo-Kyung Park, flute.
In this class, sound healing practitioner Joule L’Adara will teach how to use our own voice as an instrument ...
more >> of self-healing. You will discover that your voice is a perfectly calibrated healing instrument for your unique body and energy system! You’ll learn how to gently and effectively send vibrations within the body: clearing your energy field and re-charging your brain while bringing about deep relaxation and unleashing your creativity. L'Adara will introduce us to a variety of vocal healing practices including the toning methods of Tomatis and Keyes, harmonic chant, sacred seed syllables, and bija mantras. She will also explain how the conscious use of vocal sounding combined with intention can dramatically improve our manifestation abilities. You will leave this class equipped with a highly effective (and fun!) self-healing practice that you can easily incorporate into your daily life.
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.
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Four time Grammy Award winner Glen Velez is the founding father of the modern frame drum movement and ...
more >> is regarded as a legendary figure among musicians and audiences world-wide. Velez brought a new genre of drumming to the contemporary music scene by creating his own performance style inspired by years of percussion and frame drumming studies from various cultures. Velez’s virtuosic combinations of hand movements, finger techniques, along with his original compositional style, which incorporates stepping, drum language and Central Asian Overtone singing (split-tone singing), has undoubtedly opened new possibilities for musicians around the globe, resulting in a shift in modern percussion. For rhythm vocalist Loire Cotler, life has always been about the natural rhythm of the universe which has propelled her into a life, like her music, that is defined by pure cadence and pulse. Loire has now done no less than create an entirely new genre using the intimate power of her voice as a rhythm instrument. She calls upon a distant past of sacred ritual and echo vocal traditions (the Jewish nigunim, Middle Eastern taksim and Konnakol Indian drum language).
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Local Favorites Matt Azark, Jeff Cerulli and Erik Bransteen invite some of their favorites comedians ...
more >> to perform on this weekly showcase. Every Thursday.