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26 free events take place on Sunday, December 11 in New York City.
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26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, December 11, 2022

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free events nyc Luminaries: A Mesmerizing Display of Colorful Lanterns
free events nyc New York Jewish Book Festival
free events nyc Holiday-Themed Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour
free events nyc Handel's Messiah and Other Christmas Classics Performed in Intimate Venue (In Person and Online)
free events nyc Orchestral Works by Schumann, Strauss, and Sibelius
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Festival | Luminaries: A Mesmerizing Display of Colorful Lanterns


Conceived by the LAB at Rockwell Group, Luminaries' glowing canopy consists of 640 twinkling custom lanterns that change in color and intensity. View a special light show at the top of every hour from 8am to 10pm, set to holiday songs.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
8:00 am
free...

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
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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10:00 am
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Birdwatching | Birding: Winter Waterfowl


Urban Park Rangers will guide you to the best viewing spots in New York City to see winter waterfowl. Birding programs are appropriate for all skill levels and beginners are welcome. Please bring your own binoculars.
   Brooklyn, New York, NY
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10:00 am
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Birdwatching | Birding: Winter Waterfowl


Urban Park Rangers will guide you to the best viewing spots in New York City to see winter waterfowl. Birding programs are appropriate for all skill levels and beginners are welcome. Please bring your own binoculars.
   Queens, New York, NY
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10:00 am
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Festival | New York Jewish Book Festival


The first-ever New York Jewish Book Festival features talks, panels, and author signings. The daylong event will touch on themes of Jewish heritage including culture and history, modern life and literature, the Holocaust, food and cookbooks, and books for kids and families. Among the highlights in store will be a panel of well-known photographers discussing their work photographing Holocaust survivors and a new biography of businessman and philanthropist Edmond J. Safra, after whom the Museum's theater is named. Keynotes will feature illustrator and author Maira Kalman on her new book, Women Holding Things; Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends; and a conversation with Michael Twitty, the Southern Jewish television personality, blogger, and author of Koshersoul.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
10:00 am
free

Workshop | Tai Chi Class


Fitness in the garden.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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10:30 am
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Hike | Hibernation Hike


Hundreds of animal species spend their winters in New York City parks. Learn how animals such as birds, squirrels, chipmunks, reptiles and others survive the cold and the snow in this educational wildlife viewing adventure.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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11:00 am
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Tour | Holiday-Themed Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour


Join a professional guide on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse, and the famous Flatiron Building. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
11:00 am
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Film | Elf (2003): Holiday Classic with Will Ferrell, James Caan


Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit. Directors: Jon Favreau Stars: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart 97 min.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Film | Elf (2003): Holiday Classic with Will Ferrell, James Caan


Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit. Directors: Jon Favreau Stars: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart 97 min.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Vocal and Ensemble Jazz Performances


Program of Performances: 1 PM: Vocal Jazz 4 PM: Jazz Ensembles
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | Winter Interest Garden Walk


Bundle up as Public Garden Designer Ronda M. Brands leads a winter walk through the 3-acre garden. Learn about the plant selections made to ensure the garden would delight visitors even in the cold winter months. Learn about the multitude of conifers, seedpods, barks, and berries that add to the color, contrasts, and textures of our year-round garden and how you can use our Plant Finder to identify them. Hot chocolate will be available.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Hike | Winter Tree ID Hike


Trees have a special place in our environment. Join us for a hike of Crotona Park in search of different tree species and learn some ways to identify these trees during the changing season.
   Bronx, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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City Walk | Historic Bloomingdale Neighborhood Tour


Local historian Jim Mackin leads a mixed group of visitors to the city and resident New Yorkers on a one-of-a-kind, always interesting, walk around the historic Bloomingdale neighborhood.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
2:00 pm
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Talk | Yiddish in Rio (online)


This session features Sonia Kramer, Professor of Pontific Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/PUC-Rio, and coordinator of the “Núcleo Viver com Yiddish [Lebn far Yiddish Center]: research, courses and cultural projects.” Kramer has worked for many years as a teacher and researcher of language, literature, and pedagogy, publishing extensively on these subjects. Since 2015, her work has focused on Yiddish including developing a musical group, workshops on Yiddish music and literature for children in Jewish schools, Yiddish courses, and doing research on women that wrote in Yiddish.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Handel's Messiah and Other Christmas Classics Performed in Intimate Venue (In Person and Online)


Enjoy popular choruses from Handel's Messiah alongside Christmas carols and other holiday favorites in a special concert event. Trinity Youth Chorus; Downtown Voices; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; NOVUS NY; Avi Stein, conductor.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols Performed by All-Female Choir


Performed by The Girls' Choir, joined with H.S. Singers, Alumnae, and Women from the Adult Choir. Accompanied by Nancy Allen, harp A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten is an extended choral composition for Christmas scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp. The text, structured in eleven movements, is taken from The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, edited by Gerald Bullett. It is principally in Middle English, with some Latin and Early Modern English. It was composed in 1942 on Britten's sea voyage from the United States to England.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
4:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Internationally reknowned pianist in recital 


An institutional Brooklyn arts showcase presents Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, a 25-year-old rising star of the piano world whose talents have recently been acknowledged on NPR, PBS, and the Wall Street Journal. 
   Brooklyn, New York, NY
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Orchestral Works by Schumann, Strauss, and Sibelius


The Orchestra Now; Zachary Schwartzman, conductor. Program Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Genoveva Overture Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) Symphony No. 2
   Manhattan, New York, NY
4:00 pm
Free, RSVP required

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.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | String Quartet Performs Works by Debussy and Caplet Accompanied by Harp


The Calidore String Quartet performs Claude Debussy's iconic works for ensembles. Jeffrey Mays, violin; Ryan Meehan, violin; Jeremy Berry, viola; Estelle Choi, cello Featuring Bridget Kibbey, harp. Program Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) Danses Sacree et Profane Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) Quartet Andre Caplet (1878 - 1925) The Mask of the Red Death Recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, the Calidore String Quartet first made international headlines as winner of the $100,000 Grand Prize of the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. The quartet was the first and only North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital in a World-famous Church


Internationally recognized British organist Maks Adach plays a 45-minute program on an instrument tauted as one of North America's most significant pipe organs.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:15 pm
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Concert | Choir Performs Mozart in Intimate Venue


The Collegiate Singers presents Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor), a sacred choral composition written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. The concert features solo performances as well as piano and organ accompaniments. The Collegiate Singers of New York City was formed in 1990 as a way for music-loving parents, faculty, and friends of the Collegiate School to come together and sing. Since then, the group has become a city-wide, non-audition chorus open to all interested members.
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
Free, donations welcome

City Walk | Holiday Lights Tour


It's time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year as Midtown Manhattan lights up like no other place in the world. Mechanical window displays, synchronized light and sound shows, not to mention Santa Claus and toy soldiers surely await you in this winter wonderland. Lighting and window displays we visit on the tour: (tentative until displays are up): Rockefeller Center St. Patrick's Cathedral Saks Fifth Ave Macy's Herald Square Bergdorf Goodman Tiffany and Co. and much more Rain, snow or shine. Dress appropriate for the weather (jackets, scarves, hats, gloves and layers).
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Debussy, Price, Shaw, and More


Featuring Works by Karen Tanaka, Du Yun, Khurshida Khasanova, Claude Debussy, Florence Price, Caroline Shaw
   Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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   Manhattan, New York, NY
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