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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 7, 2023?

26 free events take place on Friday, April 7 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 7 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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26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, April 7, 2023

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Saint Omer (2022): Novelist Goes Off the Rails
free events nyc Encounters and Collisions: Music Inspired by Women's Migration Narratives
free events nyc Soul-Warming Guitar-Driven Pop Folk
free events nyc A One-Night-Only Performance by a Prolific and Masterful Pianist.
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | 2023 Macy's Flower Show


Celebrate the enchanting beauty of flowers and fragrance in this spring. Dior has brought its passion for florals to life, transforming the mezzanine level into a lavishly romantic dreamscape with thousands of beautiful blooms. Tours are given every twenty minutes until 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Symposium | Reconsidering Jewish Migration to the United States: A Century of Controversy (online)


Reconsidering Jewish Migration to the United States: A Century of Controversy marks the 100th anniversary of the pivotal Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 by exploring a century of Jewish engagement with immigration at the national and international level. The symposium brings together nationally renowned scholars and experts to examine how the 1924 act restricted immigration from the interwar period to the 1960s, how Jews and other groups were affected, and how the liberalization of immigration law after the 1960s produced major demographic changes in the United States and set the stage for contemporary political controversies over the role of immigration in American life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Discussion | Worlds at Waste: The Crisis of Water in the Subcontinent


The focus of this day-long workshop is to reflect on recent climate events that have caused massive displacement in southern Pakistan, southwest India, and Bangladesh. It aims to bring together scientists and social scientists to help look through the lens of historical pasts, politics, and embedded presents. Devastation and displacement from water caused by the climate crisis are and will remain a recurring, returning, and pervasive phenomenon in the global south. This approach intends to shift away from the focus on modeling catastrophic futures, the periodization of eras, and mapping the implications of climate change that prevail in current dialogues on climate change. Rather, the workshop guides towards a conversation that foregrounds human and environmental vulnerability in non-Western, transnational spaces with Indigenous and historical means of resilience. The intention is to continue this series with a focus on Air and Land in the following academic year. Speakers: Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University Amita Baviskar, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University Karine Gagné, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph Maira Hayat, Assistant Professor of Environment and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame Marvi Mazhar, architect and researcher Hung T. T. Nguyen, Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University Andrew Rumbach, Senior Fellow in Climate and Communities at the Urban Institute Adam H. Sobel, Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Gallery Talk | Residential Rising: Lower Manhattan Since 9/11: Curator's Tour


Museum's director Carol Willis will offer a gallery tour of the show, which focuses on Downtown's doubled population and transformed skyline over the past twenty years. Start times: 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm. 5pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Festival | First Friday: Exhibitions, Tours, Workshops, Performances


Explore the museum's exhibitions and attend a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Here's the day's entire lineup of activities: 12pm: Upstander Intervention Training led by the New York City Anti-Violence Project 3pm: Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party Curatorial Tour led by Es-pranza Humphrey 3:30pm: PH x Teens: Making the Message Zinemaking Workshop with the Young Lordes Collective 5:30pm: PH x Teens: Watercolor Haiku Workshop 7pm: PH x College: Student Movements & the Black Panther Party led by educator Rayyan Mikati
   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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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Classical Music | Works by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, and More for Baroque Cello (In Person AND Online)


Chelsea Bernstein, Baroque cello. Program Joseph Dall'Abaco (1710-1805), Caprice No. 1 in C minor J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Suite for Solo Cello No. 4 in E-flat Major Vivaldi (1678-1741), Cello Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 14 No. 6 Mozart (1756-1791), String Quartet No. 23 in F Major
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Film | Adventures of Rufus: The Fantastic Pet (2020): family adventure


Friends Scott and Emily are at Scott's grandmother's home when they suddenly discover a mysterious creature named Rufus, and the wizard Abbot in a secret room. They have a mission: with the help of an ancient spell book, they'll gather some ingredients to make a magic dust to save their world, a magical world. However, they encounter several obstacles when three mean servants with mysterious power want to put their hands on the book that they believe has spells to turn everything into gold. Director: Ryan Bellgardt Starring: Cory Phillips, Kyler Charles Beck, Leah N.H. Philpott, Leah Philpott, Lisandro Boccacci
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Fabelmans (2022) Directed by Steven Spielberg


Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen Steven Spielberg is an American film director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. He is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four Directors Guild of America Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Torquato Tasso and a New Theory of Epic


A book discussion of Corrado Confalonieri's Torquato Tasso e il desiderio di unità. With: Corrado Confalonieri, University of Parma in conversation with Daniel Javitch (NYU Emeritus) David Quint (Yale University) In ENGLISH
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Beethoven, Telemann, and More for Tenor Trombone (In Person AND Online)


Austin B Canon, tenor trombone. Program Jean-Michel Defaye (1932-present), A La Maniere de Stravinsky Beethoven (1770-1827), Seven Variations on a theme from Mozart's "Magic Flute" Joe Buono, Elegy for Trombone and Piano Telemann (1681-1767), Sonata in F minor Jacques Casterede (1926-2014), Sonatine pour Trombone et Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Gia Edzgveradze: The Charm of the Surface and the Grammar of the Abyss


This show is made up of an array of kaleidoscopic small-sized figurative paintings and larger, near-enigmatic black-and- white canvases. The smaller works utilize brilliant colors with which Edzgveradze endows his scenographies an otherworldly spirit that is nevertheless strikingly familiar. Cerulean-blue sportive grinning men and apple-green women in contorted figures go about their day, reading books on a toilet, balancing anonymous structures on their limbs, jovially dancing in a piano lounge, navigating serpentine corridors, or playing basketball.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Abdolreza Aminlari: Past Past


On view will be new hand-embroidered works on paper alongside a series of glazed ceramics. Commanding an array of material techniques in his approach to geometric abstraction, Aminlari continues to explore ideas surrounding the transnational diffusion of domestic and factory labor and cultural production through the lens of lived experience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Saint Omer (2022): Novelist Goes Off the Rails


A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court uses her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected. Director: Alice Diop Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville 122 min. In French with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Film | Self Portrait (1974): A Fundamental Figure of the 1970s Downtown Art Scene


A screening of DeeDee Halleck and Jean Dupuy's Self Portrait (1974), followed by a chat with Halleck, Barbara Moore, and Carlota Schoolman. Jean Dupuy (1925-2021) was a trailblazing figure in art and technology and a fundamental node connecting the fields of conceptual, performance, and video art in 1970s downtown New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach Vespers: Choir and Period Instrument Musicians


After 55 years, hundreds of performances, and two Grammy nominations, Bach Vespers continues to present Bach's cantatas and other great Baroque and early music masterworks every month.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Dance on Film: Rhythm in Motion (online)


This first performance of Rhythm in Motion was presented at the Theater at the 14th Street Y on March 23, 2013 as part of Tap City, the NYC Tap Festival. Featured performers include Brenda Bufalino, Michela Marino Lerman, Max Pollak's Rumba Tap, Cartier Williams and the Tap City Youth Ensemble. Aaron Marcellus appears on vocals, Theo Hill on piano, Joe Fonda on Bass and Bernice "Boom Boom" Brooks on drums. Rhythm in Motion 2013 was directed by ATDF Artistic Director Tony Waag.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Encounters and Collisions: Music Inspired by Women's Migration Narratives


Sara Serpa presents her new work "Encounters and Collisions", a commission by Chamber Music America, drawing inspiration from women's migration narratives in the US and around the world, exploring themes such as traveling, assimilation, identity, motherhood, loneliness and language. This new work features Serpa's long-time collaborators Ingrid Laubrock, Erik Friedlander and Angelica Sanchez. Sara Serpa, a Lisbon, Portugal native, is a vocalist-composer and improviser who implements a unique instrumental approach to her vocal style. Recognized for her distinctive wordless singing, Serpa has been immersed in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music since first arriving in New York in 2008. Described by The New York Times as "a singer of silvery poise and cosmopolitan outlook," and by JazzTimes magazine as "a master of wordless landscapes," Serpa started her career with jazz luminaries such as Grammy-nominated pianist Danilo Perez, and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow pianist Ran Blake.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | New Poetry: Uterotopia / Date of Birth


Uterotopia by Rachel Galvin. With lyric intensity, wordplay, and dark humor, Uterotopia explores sexism and aging, fertility and mortality, the bystander effect, and violence against women on an intimate and national level. In poems that converse with writers including César Vallejo, Kim Hyesoon, and W.H. Auden, urban legends and folk rituals interweave with facts, anecdotes, and news items.   Date of Birth by Shawn R. Jones. The poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R. Jones has moments of humor and playfulness—for example, in a litany of indelible nicknames of the members of her childhood cohort in Atlantic City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Vocal Work by Pergolesi


Alissa Grimaldi, soprano; Margo Andrea, mezzo; and Michael Eisenberg, harpsichord. Program Pergolesi (1710-1736), Stabat Mater
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | A One-Night-Only Performance by a Prolific and Masterful Pianist.


Critic John Garratt writes that pianist Matthew Shipp's album Codebreaker "is the sound of Shipp gliding on autopilot, letting his subconscious do the talking. That it sounds so musical and reflective is a testament to his command of the instrument, improvisational skills, and ability to tap into what lies beneath."
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Soul-Warming Guitar-Driven Pop Folk


For over a decade, the Canadian singer-songwriter Joshua Hyslop has been crafting, recording and touring his unique brand of enigmatic, guitar-driven pop folk. Hyslop's insistent gossamer baritone vocals and intricate fingerpicking technique imbue his music with delicate melodic power. His latest LP, 2022's Westward, captures the veteran busker emerging from a series of personal trials with a melancholic but undaunted spirit, a state of mind perhaps all too relatable to anyone who fought through our pandemic years. These are hushed campfire songs of literal revival, drawing from bluegrass and gospel traditions, centered on earned optimism. Let Hyslop warm your soul with his message of beauty and relentless hope.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
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