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19 free events take place on Friday, December 16 in New York City.
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19 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, December 16, 2022

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free events nyc Luminaries: A Mesmerizing Display of Colorful Lanterns
free events nyc Murder, She Wrote: Agatha Christie and Archaeology (online)
free events nyc Sidemen for Dave Brubeck, Liza Minelli, Lionel Hampton, and more play Jazz at a Museum
free events nyc Your Voices: Kinetic Sculpture and Musical Performances
free events nyc Romantic Interlude: Works by Debussy, Chopin, and More at a Fifth Ave Mansion
free events nyc Two Sonatas and Ballet for Violin & Piano Duo (In Person and Online)
free events nyc 9-Member Ensemble Plays Colombian Salsa
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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 ... more >> 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 am
free...

Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide ... more >> 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 ... more >> 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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Tour | African Burial Ground National Monument Lobby Art Tour


Are you looking to learn more about the African Burial Ground National Monument? This family-friendly ... more >> tour is for you. Please give yourself enough time to get through security, as tours do begin promptly at the designated time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:30 am
free

Talk | Murder, She Wrote: Agatha Christie and Archaeology (online)


This program will explore how writer Dame Agatha Christie weaved together her personal archaeological ... more >> experiences, and travels in Mesopotamia, into thrilling mysteries, and will feature objects from the exhibition She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C. as well as the collection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free

Gallery Talk | Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered: Exhibition Walkthrough


This is an hour-long tour, offered in person and led by gallery guides, take participants through the ... more >> current exhibition to experience different perspectives of the works on view.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Something Beautiful: Reframing La Coleccion


A tour to explore and discuss the on-view sections of the exhibition, the gallery's most ambitious presentation ... more >> of its unique, complex, and culturally diverse permanent collection in over two decades. Start times: 1pm, 2:30pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) with Jack Black


Lovable martial-artist panda Po reunites with his long-lost father Li, and the pair travel to a secret ... more >> panda sanctuary. There, they must work together to defeat a powerful yak who steals the life force of other warriors. Dir: Alessandro Carloni & Jennifer Yuh Nelson With JK Simmons, Bryan Cranston, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, and Seth Rogen. 95 Min. Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his acting roles in the films High Fidelity (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), School of Rock (2003), The Holiday (2006), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), and the Jumanji franchise; in addition, as of August 2022, his music video for Tribute -- as one half of the Grammy Award-winning comedy rock duo Tenacious D -- has accumulated more than 112 million views on YouTube alone. Additionally, he is also well known for his voice-acting roles as the giant panda named Po from DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda films. Black gained Golden Globe nominations for his work in School of Rock and Bernie, and was given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2018.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | 2 New Books: A Story to Save Your Life / Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court (in-person and online)


Sarah Bishop's A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants' Search for Asylum (Columbia ... more >> University Press, 2022) A young woman flees violence in Mexico and seeks protection in the United States—only to be trafficked as a domestic worker in the Bronx. A decorated immigration judge leaves his post when the policies he proudly upheld capsize in the wake of political turmoil. A Gambian translator who was granted asylum herself talks with other African women about how immigration officers expect victims of torture to behave. A border patrol officer begins to question the training that instructs him to treat the children he finds in the Arizona desert like criminals. Akinsulure-Smith's Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court (NYU Press, 2022) Every day, large numbers of immigrants undertake dangerous migration journeys only to face deportation or “removal” proceedings once they arrive in the U.S. Others who have been in the country for many years may face these proceedings as well, and either group may seek to gain lawful status by means of an application to USCIS, the benefits arm of the immigration system. Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court examines the growing role of mental health professionals in the immigration system as they conduct forensic mental health assessments that are used as psychological evidence for applications for deportation relief, write affidavits for the court about the course of treatment they have provided to immigrants, help prepare people emotionally to be deported, and provide support for immigrants in detention centers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Jazz | Sidemen for Dave Brubeck, Liza Minelli, Lionel Hampton, and more play Jazz at a Museum


Join a historic New York Museum as they host Jazz trio BeBimBop in a picturesque indoor courtyard as ... more >> part of their Free Fridays event. BeBimBap is a virtuoso instrumental trio specializing in Samba and Flamenco riffs on pop, rock, and R&B classics and American standards, and features former bandmates of some of the most notable names in Jazz. BeBimBop: Joe Ravo, guitar Brian Glassman, bass Danny Mallon, percussion
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Concert | Your Voices: Kinetic Sculpture and Musical Performances


Es Devlin's kinetic sculpture is formed of 700 glowing cords expressing the 700 languages currently spoken ... more >> in New York City, which are tensioned between a series of structural arcs, enveloping visitors within a revolving illuminated network as it rotates north, south, east and west through a multilingual soundscape which interweaves languages drawn from all over the city: from Algerian Arabic, Alsation, Azeri and Ashanti to Zapotec, Zarma and Zulu. As the sculpture revolves, it acts as a lens between the viewer and their surroundings. The viewer's perspective is spliced and framed by the shifting strands of the sculpture as it turns, evoking the way our perspectives are enriched and shaped by experiencing the linguistic structures and identities of others, amidst a soundscape composed by the contemporary composers, Polyphonia, in which the powerful text from EM Forster's 1910 novel Howards End has been translated into multiple overlaid languages: "Only connect, and live in fragments no longer." Performances by multiligual singing groups will include Ukrainian Village Voices, Harlem Japanese Gospel Choir, and Our Chorus NYC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free...

Screening | Exterior Night (2022): 3 Episodes of an Italian Series


The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists ... more >> Directed by Marco Bellocchio Starring Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo In Italian with English subtitles 165 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free

Performance | The Unseen: Motion-Capture Performance on Ice Honoring Black Figure Skaters


The Unseen is a real-time motion capture performance on ice showcasing, celebrating, and honoring Black ... more >> figure skaters of the past and present. Visuals will be projected on the ice blending the stories of the future-past. This work explores and discovers Blackness both in the context of race, as well as outside of race. Blackness as invisible(transparent), unknown(unseen), and expansive. Blackness as magic, unbound by colonial markers such as time, gender, race, class, sexuality etc. How do we navigate, and heal by accessing the unseen? How might we honor and channel the stories of our ancestors as an embodied experience, and how can we save that information for generations to come?
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free

Book Discussion | The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower (online)


Dr. Michael Mandelbaum of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies discusses his book. ... more >> Mandelbaum is the author of sixteen previous books, including Mission Failure (Oxford, 2016) The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth (Oxford, 2019), and, with Thomas L. Friedman, That Used to Be Us (2011).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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City Walk | Holiday Lights Tour


It's time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year as Midtown Manhattan lights up like no other ... more >> 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).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Modern Works Performed by Percussion Ensemble


Program: Carlos Chavez (1899 - 1978) Toccata; Georges Aperghis (1945 - ) Les Guetteurs de Son; Seung ... more >> Ah Oh (1988 - ) Da De Rim Gil.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Romantic Interlude: Works by Debussy, Chopin, and More at a Fifth Ave Mansion


A concert featuring: Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin Edward Arron, cello Andrew Armstrong, piano Program will ... more >> include works by Frederic Chopin, Mykola Lysenko and Claude Debussy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free

Classical Music | Two Sonatas and Ballet for Violin & Piano Duo (In Person and Online)


Claudia Schaer, violin; Olga Gurevich, piano Program Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Sonata BWV ... more >> 1014 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Sonata #8 in G major Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) Suite Italienne Seating is first come, first serve. Masks are required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free, reservations required

Concert | 9-Member Ensemble Plays Colombian Salsa


The nine-member Lulada Club collective of NYC-based musicians transplants the shimmer and excitement ... more >> of Cali Colombia salsa straight into the heart of New York City. As one of the genre's rare all-woman bands, Lulada's unique and exciting energy translates to an incandescent live set. Lead vocalist Andrea Chavarro leads the ensemble as they present a aalsa Christmas party of vintage tropical salsa, boogaloo, bolero, and cha cha cha at this performance of danceable classics and deep cuts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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