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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 6, 2022?

30 free events take place on Wednesday, April 6 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 6 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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30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 6, 2022

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free events nyc El Futuro (2013): Young and Partying in Socialist Spain (online through Apr. 15)
free events nyc Jazz Wednesday
free events nyc Polarization in American Politics (online)
free events nyc Exile: Music of the Early Modern Jewish Diaspora (online)
free events nyc Splendor by the Sea: Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age (online)
free events nyc Live from the Woody Guthrie Center: Oklahoma Sings Woody! (online)
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Film | El Futuro (2013): Young and Partying in Socialist Spain (online through Apr. 15)


A group of young people dance and drink at a house. The atmosphere is festive and cheerful. Socialist victory in the general elections of 1982 seems recent. The night is full of euphoria and celebration. The attempt of coup d etat made in 1981 appears to be quite far away. We could say that in Spain, in 1982, everything was future. However, the future also looks closer at enormous speed, like a black hole that devours everything in its path. Director: Luis Lopez Carrasco Stars: Lucia Alonso, Rafael Ayuso Mateo, Marta Bassols 67 min. In Spanish with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Park Walk | High Line Tour: From Freight to Flowers


Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky: an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Lecture | "No Make Erreur": How a Cameroonian Pop Song Offered a Biting Critique (online)


Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the current director of Savvy Contemporary in Berlin and future director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, will present this talk The 1986 pop song "No Make Erreur," composed and performed by the Cameroonian musician Lapiro de Mbanga, was a dance floor sensation, and also offered biting criticism of the capitalist urge to exploit and appropriate. No doubt, the sensibility contributed to the singer’s imprisonment years later. The song, which is six minutes and 34 seconds long, seems today like a true and revealing anthem of the twentieth century, and opens a discussion about where our societies are today in their struggle but also in their joy—a sociopolitical Spannungsfeld, a field of voltage and strain.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela (online)


William Neuman, former New York Times Andes region bureau chief, discusses his new book that chronicles Venezuela's tragic journey from petro-riches to poverty. The book is a nuanced and deeply-reported account of the collapse of Venezuela, and what it could mean for the rest of the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Lakeside Boat Landings Walk in Central Park (online)


See how boating on the lake became a popular pastime and discover the unique structures that served as scenic lookouts and small docks on this walk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Lecture | The Lenin Dilemma: Are Cooperatives Made to Build Socialism or Capitalism? (online)


At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in Tsarist Russia, as well as in other industrialised countries, cooperatives were, alongside collectivism, claimed to be an alternative to private enterprises. This lecture examines how these cooperatives, once a tool against capitalism, were progressively integrated as a major instrument of the Soviet regime. It explores how and why cooperatives have been used by the Bolsheviks, as well as by different social groups in cities and campaigns, in Russia in general and in the Perm region in particular. Focusing on the narratives, uses and actors of cooperatives, this lecture contributes to a the writing of a socio-economic history of Russia, and to broader understanding of the Early Soviet years. Speaker Anna Safronova is a PhD researcher at Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Wednesday


Jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook. Bill Wurtzel began playing guitar at age 9, and was a radio and TV country music performer by age 12. He attended art school and had a career as an award-winning advertising creative director. He continued to play professionally and switched to music full time in 1989. Bill has played 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. Bill is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Music for Brass at a Major Concert Hall


All audience members must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Masks are required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Photo Walk of Iconic Seattle Photo Spots (online)


Mahesh Thapa takes you on a virtual photo walk through some iconic Seattle locations. You’ll get tips on topics such as when best to visit and what focal length to use. Thapa has called Seattle his home for over 20 years and knows the Emerald City like the back of his hand! Whether you’re a native or planning to visit Seattle for the first time, we’re confident you’ll learn something from this webinar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Photowalk of Iconic Seattle Photo Spots (online)


Mahesh Thapa takes you on a virtual photowalk through some iconic Seattle locations. You’ll get tips on topics such as when best to visit and what focal length to use. Mahesh has called Seattle his home for over 20 years and knows the Emerald City like the back of his hand. Whether you’re a native or planning to visit Seattle for the first time, you’ll learn something from this webinar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Smokey and the Bandit (1977): Chasing Monshiners with Burt Reynolds, Sally Field


The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. Director: Hal Needham Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed 96 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Pine Islands: A Novel of Transformations (online)


Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Keen to cure his malaise, he decides to find solace in nature the way Basho did. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the poet to see the moon rise over the pine islands of Matsushima. Although, of course, unlike the great poet, he will take a train. Along the way he falls into step with another pilgrim: Yosa, a young Japanese student clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of Suicide. Together, Gilbert and Yosa travel across Basho's disappearing Japan, one in search of his perfect ending and the other a new beginning. Serene, playful, and profound, Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands is a story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | The Republic and Her Others: Race and Nation in France in the Year 2000


Drawing from ethnographic research on the naturalization process, Sarah Mazouz examines the non-recognition of racial questions and discriminations in contemporary France. Sarah Mazouz's main research topics are race, intersectionality and antidiscrimination policies in France, and citizenship politics in France and in Germany. Her work draws on ethnography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Korean American: A New Cookbook


Celebrate the launch of Eric Kim's debut cookbook. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Rosa Barba: Drawing the Infinite


The gallery’s first solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba. The presentation, which brings together two of her recent film installations and a selection of her sculptural works from the past decade, highlights Barba’s continuous engagement with the representational function of images and language as they are channeled through cinematic apparatuses. For Barba, cinema is a sovereign and speculative instrument that critically questions the singular properties of space and time, opening up the boundaries of traditional perception. Barba challenges linear modes of presenting and organizing knowledge by reshaping and representing imagery from scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and geology, as well as cultural archives, through shifts in gesture, genre, as well as the decontextualization of information and documents. The films, installations, and sculptures in this exhibition situate her work between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, and an oscillating logic is put forth, one that reflects how information is processed and transformed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents (online)


Author Neda Toloui-Semnani is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer. She is currently a senior writer at the television news magazine VICE News Tonight, and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Kinfolk, New York, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler, The Week, BuzzFeed, and Roll Call, among others. From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution...
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Musical Geography with Historic Lutes (in-person and online)


with Chris Stephens
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Trayvon Generation: The Challenges of Young Black America (online)


The bestselling author Elizabeth Alexander examines the power of art and culture to illuminate America’s unresolved problems with race. In the summer of 2020, following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander began turning a mother’s eye to her sons’ and students’ generation to reflect on the challenges facing young Black America. The Trayvon Generation, as she began referring to them, could not, even as children, be shielded from the brutality that has affected the lives of so many Black people. In her new book. Alexander weaves together those reflections with ruminations on groundbreaking works of art by some of our most extraordinary artists in order to ask how we reckon with who we are as a nation and how we move forward..
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Four Treasures of the Sky: A Debut Novel


Debut novelist Jenny Tinghui Zhang's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Apogee, Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Rumpus, HuffPost, The Cut, Catapult, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming and has received support from Kundiman, Tin House, and VONA/Voices. She was born in Changchun, China and grew up in Austin, Texas, where she currently lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poems That Saved My Life (online)


Read by Sonia Sanchez and Reginald Dwayne Betts  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Sustainable Food Systems (online)


An unforgettable virtual event looking at how New York City is building sustainable food systems. Lineup of speakers including: Food Tank's Danielle Nierenberg, Scholar-in-Residence. Kate MacKenzie, Director, Mayor’s Office of Food Policy Naama Tamir, Co-Owner, Lighthouse Restaurant Marcel Van Ooyen, President/CEO, GrowNYC Keith Carr, Senior Policy and Government Relations Manager, City Harvest
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (online)


Acclaimed author, tattoo artist, and longtime Latin teacher Phuc Tran launches of the paperback edition of his acclaimed memoir. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Exile: Music of the Early Modern Jewish Diaspora (online)


Incantare, in collaboration with Rutgers faculty and specialists in early music, explores the continuities and influences between Jewish and non-Jewish music and musicians in Renaissance and early-modern Europe. The program sheds new light on the powerful role played by Jews in the formation of musical culture during this volatile period, when the foundations of the European musical tradition were forged. Exile is closely tied with the forthcoming book Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy, co-edited by Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, and Liza Malamut.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | From Past to Present: The Work of Audre Lorde


Voices of a People's History honors the centenary of historian Howard Zinn (1922–2010), author of the classic bestseller A People's History of the United States, with a new conversation series hosted by the archivist and memory worker Zakiya Collier. Together, Collier and her guests draw from Zinn's example of interrogating key moments of the historical record via documents, images, and recordings to create an illuminating dialogue on what the past can teach contemporary audiences. Poet-in-residence Mahogany L. Browne and poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylo will join Collier to discuss selections from Sister Outsider, collected essays from the iconic activist, author, and poet Audre Lorde. Browne and Taylor will also read some vital passages of the book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Discussion | Polarization in American Politics (online)


Conservative writer William Kristol and newly re-elected Republican Mayor of Oklahoma City David Holt come together for an insider's perspective on the shifting power balance in the Republican Party and its reverberations throughout American politics. How does today's GOP differ from the last generation? How is this shift changing the calculus for Democrats and progressives? What does the term "conservative" mean today? Are there bigger ideological schisms still to come? And how are these dynamics playing out on the city, state, and federal levels across party lines? Hear Kristol and Holt answer these urgent questions and more as they consider what it all means for the American political system and democracy itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Governing the Climate? The Paris Agreement at Work (online)


It has been more than six years since COP 21 was held in Paris in December 2015. We’re now able to take a step back, take stock, and ask some important questions about the Paris process: How can very ambitious emissions reduction goals be met by voluntary national commitments? Do commitments translate into transformative policies? What are the most promising mechanisms, initiatives, and developments that could enable developing countries to deliver on ambitious emissions reduction targets? How does the formal regime (post-Paris process) interact with initiatives, actions and commitments from the industrial and financial sectors? How will the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine impact international climate policy? The Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Global Centers | Paris will host a panel of experts to address these questions, and more.   Moderator: Pierre Noël, Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University   Panelists: Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University Professor, Sciences Po; and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics Amy Dahan, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS (Paris, France) Paul Watkinson, Counsellor to Director for European and International Action, Ministry for Ecological Transition, France
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Larry and Lucy: Drama Reminiscent of Midnight Cowboy, Whitnail and I


Reminiscent in tone of classic films like "Midnight Cowboy" and "Whitnail & I," Larry & Lucy is about two emotionally wounded outsiders struggling to find a sense of place in the world. The play touches on the themes of loneliness, togetherness and the continuing opiate crisis in America. Larry is a worn-out, 63-year-old street muralist who now barely supports his meager, one room Hollywood existence by driving for Uber. Lucy is a fragile Kansas City teen runaway looking to beat a heroin addiction. After a few chance meetings the two embark on a series of misadventures that help them gain insight into their troubled lives, yet also reminds them of the difficulties they'll face when trying to overcome their deep rooted afflictions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Live from the Woody Guthrie Center: Oklahoma Sings Woody! (online)


In this livestreamed concert from the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma celebrates the music of Woody Guthrie, featuring artists who have followed in his footsteps. Performers include the Red Dirt Rangers, David Amram, Branjae, and John Fullbright. Concert is hosted by Deana McCloud, Founding Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Woody Guthrie Center, who will lead a brief virtual tour of the center before the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Tour | Splendor by the Sea: Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age (online)


During the Gilded Age, when one heard Newport mentioned, images of the amazingly rich would come to mind parading in carriages up and down Bellevue Avenue to show off new finery. Their summer "cottages" were anything but. You'll see French inspired chateaux, Italian palazzos, English manors and even some castles, enjoy tales of dazzling entertainments and whimsical parties like the Ball Blanc, the Dogs Dinner and a feast where guests dug for party favors like emeralds, diamonds and rubies using Tiffany silver trowels in a sandbox that ran the length of the table. Architect and author Gary Lawrance leads a virtual tour of these mansions - many of which have been destroyed. You'll travel from the early days when Newport was a quiet summer resort, through the influx of extremely wealthy families who built the grand homes in their glory years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free
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