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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 17, 2021?

24 free events take place on Saturday, April 17 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 17 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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24 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, April 17, 2021

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Dance Performance | New York City Ballet (virtual)


Choreographer Kyle Abraham premieres a new work "When We Fell", featuring dancers India Bradley, Jonathan Fahoury, Christopher Grant, Claire Kretzschmar, Lauren Lovette, Taylor Stanley, KJ Takahashi, and Sebastian Villarini-Velez. It was filmed on the Promenade and stage of the David H. Koch Theater. Streaming is available until Apr 22.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 am
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Film | Twyla Moves: Documentary about Pioneering Choreographer Twyla Tharp (virtual, streaming for 24 hours)


Explore legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp's career and famously rigorous creative process, with original interviews, first-hand glimpses of her at work and rare archival footage of select performances from her more than 160 choreographed works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 am
Free

Play | Women Without Men: Drama Laced with Humor (virtual, streaming for 24 hours)


Women Without Men is a workplace drama laced with biting humor, set in the teacher's lounge of a private girls' boarding school in Ireland in the 1930s. The play explores the clash of conflicting natures and petty competitions that erupt amongst the school's cloistered teaching staff. Playwright Hazel Ellis began her theatrical career in the 1930s as a member of the acting ensemble of the Gate Theatre in Dublin. She went on to write two plays for the company, including Women Without Men which was produced at the Gate in 1938. Despite acclaim, the play was never published or revived -- until the Mint Theater produced the play's belated American premiere to much acclaim in 2016 at New York City Center Stage II. This is an archival recording. Streaming is available until Apr 18th.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 am
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Fair | (IN-PERSON, outdoors) Flea Market: Antiques, Vintage Goods, Food Vendors


Search for hidden gems as you browse antiques, vintage goods, architectural salvage and collectibles. There is also a selection of food vendors from Smorgasburg. Face covering is required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Museums | (IN-PERSON) Jewish History: Centuries of Art


One of the largest collections of art and Jewish culture in the world, it focuses both on artifacts of Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. Works in the collection are presented as distinctive creative expressions and as bearers of the stories of those who made, owned, used, preserved, and sometimes transformed them. The exhibition speaks of the vast range of Jewish experiences across the globe and over time, made tangible through artistic expression. It is both a mirror of Jewish identities and an inspiration for the formation of new ones.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Harriet Tubman and Maryland's Underground Railroad Sites (virtual)


Join the tour of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad sites in Maryland, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. Learn how Harriet successfully escaped from slavery and how she then heroically led others to freedom. The program will focus on Harriet Tubman's (1822-1913) inspirational life and feature many of the Underground Railroad sites in Maryland associated with her.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Book Buzz: What's New (virtual)


Are you on the hunt for the next great read? Or are you curious to read something new? Tune in for a fun presentation about forthcoming books and the inside scoop on the latest releases from top publishers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Park Walk | (IN-PERSON) Foraging Tour: Devil's Walkingstick Shoot, Redbud Flowers, Wild Carrots, and More


This Brooklyn park provides such a superabundance of wild foods as mid-spring approaches, it's hard to cover them all in just one tour. You'll begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters. Then, you'll come across stands of goutweed, an herb that tastes like parsley, carrots and celery. Nearby, you'll find munch on sweet-sour redbud flowers, then check out the asparagus-flavored Devil's walkingstick trees that grow next to sour-flavored Japanese knotweed shoots. You'll also find sour-flavored curly dock leaves, wild bay leaves, and wintergreen-flavored black birch, peppergrass, poor man's pepper, common blue violets, jewelweed, plus the roots of burdock, wild carrots, and much more. The tour will last for about 4 hours. Please wear a mask and observe social distancing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:45 am
$20 suggested donation,...

Jazz | (IN-PERSON, outdoors) Jazz Band in a Park: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and More


David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band is inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and more. The band breathes life and passion into America's own great art form.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | (IN-PERSON, outdoors) Juggling in a Park


Join in for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching the jugglers put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided and regularly sanitized. Schedule: Tuesdays 6-7pm Wednesdays 12-1pm Saturdays 12-1pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Opening Reception | (IN-PERSON) Large-Scale Abstract Paintings


Keltie Ferris' FEEEEELING features a dozen large-scale paintings and a site-responsive wall drawing. Over the past fifteen years, Ferris has developed his exuberant and complex approach to abstract painting using a variety of methods including spray gun, dry pigment and hand-painted fields. The new paintings in FEEEEELING belong to a few distinct stylistic groups, each an evolution from Ferris's previous work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Theater | (IN-PERSON and virtual) Open 'Tho Shut: Pop-Up Theater Outdoors


"Open 'Tho Shut," a weekly series of free, live walk-by performances in which acts will be staged live in the theater's set shop for audiences of socially distanced passers-by.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | (IN-PERSON) Costumes and Uniforms by Acclaimed Photographer


Photographer Michal Chelbin presents "How to Dance the Waltz." Fascinated by costumes and uniforms, over the course of five years Chelbin photographed young matadors training at schools in Seville, Spain; cadets at a military academy in Ukraine; and high school students on the eve of prom in Kiev (the capital of Ukraine). The artist looks at puberty and gender as a performance that involves keen attention to costumery. Her photographs address the ways in which societal expectations of gender, especially in regard to clothing and uniform, inform a young person's development and identity. Chelbin's work can be found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Jewish Museum, NYC; Tel Aviv Museum; SFMOMA, San Francisco; and many more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | (IN-PERSON) Soft Powers: Photography


Photographer Joseph Desler Costa's exhibition "Soft Powers" uses late 1980s and early 1990s aesthetics and political structures as symbols that reflect today's fractured and divided world where credibility and truth are hard to come by. Costa combines multiple exposures, appropriation, and laser-cut, layered prints, creating art objects that look almost mass-produced or machine-made--as if fresh off the assembly line. He often re-photographs his own images and incorporates them into new pieces to further drive this feeling of sterile reproduction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Prodigy: Tchaikovsky, J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn and More (virtual)


10 year old Ryan Huang, piano. He has already performed at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, and more. Program J.S. Bach Sinfonia No.15 in B minor, BWV 801 Mendelssohn Song without Words in C Major, op.67 No.4 "Spinning Song" Mendelssohn Song without Words in G minor, Op.102 No.4 Tchaikovsky Valse de salon, Op.51 No.1 Tchaikovsky Polka peu dansante, Op.51 No.2 Rachmaninoff Humoresque, Op. 10 No.5
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | (IN-PERSON, outdoors) Jazz Quartet Performs Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin


Saxophonists and clarinetists Peter and Will Anderson will be joined by Joe Boga on trumpet and Alex Raderman on drums. They will play classic American repertoire from the songbooks of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Ballet! (virtual)


An Evening of Repertoire by American Liberty Ballet dancers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | (IN-PERSON, outdoors) Saturday Live Music


Take a dash of Herb Albert, a pinch of David Bowie, add a handful of Andy Kaufman, and you have Robert Whaley and his band. Food and drinks are available for purchase.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Play | Pen/Man/Ship: Broadway Actors in a Period Drama (virtual)


1896. When Ruby, a young Black woman fleeing the American South, boards a ship bound for Liberia, she finds herself at odds with her companion’s domineering, God-fearing father and his mysterious expedition. Unwilling to sit passively below deck, she befriends the crew, becoming entangled in a mutinous uprising that threatens them all. Performed live with breakthrough technology and expansive visuals that put the audience aboard the troubled vessel, pen/man/ship is a heart-pounding story of truth-seeking at all cost and a powerful reminder of the dangerous limits of self-righteousness. Written by Christina Anderson (Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre) Directed by Lucie Tiberghien The cast features Lucille Lortel Award winner Crystal Lucas-Perry (A Bright Room Called Day at the Public Theater), Kevin Mambo ("Marvel's Luke Cage" on Netflix, Fela in Broadway's Fela!), Jared McNeill (HBO's "We Are Who We Are," Battlefield at BAM) and Postell Pringle (Broadway's A Free Man of Color, FX's "Rescue Me").
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's Hamlet: Adaptation (virtual)


Presented by New School MFA Shakespeare Studio. Directed and Adapted by Jane Skapek.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Innovative String Quartet and a Vocalist (virtual)


Hear the “Dreamers,” artists who kept the hopes of the oppressed alive with their music and poetry. Vocalist Magos Herrera and the always daring Brooklyn Rider perform treasures from the Ibero-American songbook set to texts by such literary giants as Octavio Paz, Federico García Lorca, and others who suffered under repressive regimes. These songs are reimagined in brilliant new arrangements that uplift and inspire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Stand-up Comedy (virtual)


Live comedy showcase of Asian American performers. This energetic virtual program will chronicle how these artists are triumphing over their quarantine struggles through stand-up, sketch, and storytelling. Hosted by Otter Lee of Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out the News.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's Measure for Measure: Adaptation (virtual)


Our state is wrought with disease, injustice, and inequity. The justice system is flawed and ineffective, so many citizens do not take it seriously. The duke appoints a deputy to govern in his absence as he travels on official business to the capital. The deputy has a man arrested under a previously unenforced law and sentenced to death. The imprisoned man calls for his sister to appeal to the deputy and save his life. How can she appeal to this deputy to save her brother? How will the deputy assert his new temporary powers in response to her? Presented by New School MFA Shakespeare Studio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Stand Up Comedy (virtual)


Stand up comedy featuring comedians from HBO, The Tonight Show, CONAN, Amazon, Comedy Central, Netflix, TikTok, SNL, Colbert and more! Hosted by Rich Kiamco (The Howard Stern Show). Each Sat at 9 pm. Different lineup each week.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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