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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 28, 2020?

35 free events take place on Tuesday, January 28 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 January 28 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 January . 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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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 28, 2020

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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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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Workshop | Zumba Jumpstart


A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more! Enthusiastic Instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Lesson | Introduction To Conversational Sign Language


Sessions are structured for hearing adults. Interested participants are encouraged to register for, and attend all sessions. American Sign Language is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Zumba Fit Workshop


A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more! Enthusiastic Instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 am
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Film | Primal (2019): Action Thriller With Nicolas Cage


Frank's caught wildlife in the Brazilian jungle incl. a 400 lbs. white jaguar. He ships it on the same ship as an arrested assassin. The assassin breaks free and frees the animals. 97 min. Director: Nick Powell. Starring Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Cozy Igloo Knitting Sessions


For your ultimate dose of hygge, cozy up in an igloo under the midtown Manhattan sky and partake in a knitting session. Create a scarf that you can take home or donate to the Found But Not Lost initiative. Materials and instruction provided by Knitty City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz With The Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; David Hofstra on bass; and Ernie Lumer on clarinet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | French Baroque Chamber Music


French baroque chamber music performed on period instruments. Baroque music is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arcangelo Corelli, Francois Couperin, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Tour | Heart of the Park Tour


Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Lecture | Main Drivers of Brazilian Income Distribution Changes


After three decades of persistently high-income inequality, from 2001 Brazil experienced a downward inequality trend followed by rising mean income growth. Both movements lasted until 2014 according to household surveys. This work describes Brazilian income distribution trends and their close determinants using a vast array of data sets and empirical methodologies to fill gaps found in the literature. It attempts to provide a more comprehensive picture looking jointly at inequality, mean, and social welfare growth rates. Speaker Marcelo Neri is the Director of FGV Social at Getulio Vargas Foundation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | How To Understand Alzheimer's and Dementia


Alzheimer's is not normal aging. It's a disease of the brain that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. Licet Valois, LMSW, MPS discusses the impact of Alzheimer's, the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia, Alzheimer's disease stages and risk factors, current research and treatments available to address some symptoms and Alzheimer's Association resources. Licet Valois is one of the Care and Support Program Manager at the Alzheimer's Association. She is a bilingual, Licensed Social Worker and a Certified Dementia Practitioner, who has been practicing in the field of dementia care for the last 15 years. Ms. Valois is a frequent lecturer on dementia related topics, healthy brain aging and caregiving issues. Her main interest is empowering individuals coping with the struggles of dementia care at different levels. This includes individuals diagnosed with some type of dementia, their caregivers (paid and non-paid family members), and other professionals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Author Reading | Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery


Professor Atul Kohli from Princeton University will present his latest book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 5 Solo Photography Shows


With: Carol Julien Justin Capablo Sandi Daniel Steven Gilbert Maria Musalevskaya
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines


Design legends Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser will be in conversation to present Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines. For more than fifty years, Bernard and Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, they recount their storied careers, offering insiders’ perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Career Resources


Explore job/career resources available at the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) and other public sites; find industry and career advice, resume guides and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Free Writing Hour


An evening of free-form creative writing! No formal writing experience is required, just enthusiasm and curiosity to see where writing takes you. Each month's Writing Hour features a theme to inspire your writing. In the January session, shake up your creative outlet by randomizing your prompts! Select three words out of a hat...and the rest of the story is up to you.  This is a relaxed forum to experiment with and strengthen your writing. There is an option, but not the requirement, to share your work in each session.  Write freely and meet other people who love writing for the sake of writing!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | KIT@20: Twenty Years of Kairos Italy Theater


Join the KIT staff and their friends in celebrating 20 years of theater in NY (and beyond)! January 28, 2000: KIT incorporates becoming officially the main Italian theater company in New York. Twenty years later, it brings back, for one night only, the first sketches presented at the Miranda Theater and then at Casa Italiana in the late 1990s. KIT colleagues, collaborators, and friends from around the world will take center stage and will present a 10-minute-long excerpt from an upcoming documentary on Moderata Fonte and The Worth of Women, shot in Florence during Fall 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Talk | Artist Talk: Believing You


A talk and performance by artist Elyla (Fredman Barahona), whose work is on view in Believing You, presented by MFA Fine Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Concert | In the Salon of Madame Brillon: Concert and Conversation


The Raritan Players, led by Rebecca Cypess, invite listeners into the musical world of Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744-1824), a French composer and keyboardist whose reputation extended throughout Europe and across the Atlantic. Her salon was one of the most fashionable and glittering in Paris. Her salon was a destination for leading professional musicians including Luigi Boccherini, Johann Schobert, and Charles Burney. In the centuries since her death, Madame Brillon--like so many women--has been all but erased from musical history. Using her manuscripts at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, as well as works dedicated to her by some of Europe's leading composers, this program explores Brillon's tastes and the music that she created and inspired. For this concert and discussion, Rebecca Cypess draws on her book-in-progress about Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Lyons Den Power Yoga


Founded in November 2013, Lyons Den Power Yoga is an infrared-heated power yoga studio and the only Baptiste-style studio in Manhattan. Lyons Den Power Yoga is recognized as a hub for Baptiste Yoga worldwide. The practice at The Den is designed to empower individuals with focus, training and insight that supports individuals to achieve consistent results in the most important areas of their lives and has an incredibly inclusive community.
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Mystery Book Club: Kingdom of the Blind


In her by-now-characteristic fashion, author Louise Penny simultaneously unspools several suspense narratives, each of them accruing power and threat, faster and faster, until the novel closes in a crescendo of violence, unmasking and regret.   
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis


Women have become increasingly targeted in the War on Drugs, resulting in the “feminization” of the US War on Drugs. In the era of the overdose death crisis, whose bodies are most vulnerable to increased risk of harm, death, violence, social surveillance and policing? What can we do in order to envision a world where substance use is not pathologized and where prisons and jails are not a standard policy solution? With author Kimberly Sue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Living in Color: What's Funny About Me


Welcoming actor and comedian Tommy Davidson. He will be discussing and signing his memoir, his unique story on making it in Hollywood, being an integral part of television history, on fame and family, and on living a life that has never been black and white. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Notes Going Underground: The World Between Life and Death


Joram Piatigorsky's short stories create an intriguing world between life and death. We see the world through a human lens, with its benefits and limitations. However, the mind and imagination can wander into foreign territories and indulge in fantasies with different rules that challenge our concepts of being human.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | The Incels: Misogyny and Violence


Tom and Derrick are incels: depressed, bitter men who can’t get girlfriends. Tom records his manifesto on his vlog, telling tales of fruitless encounters with women ... as well as his plan to rid the world of sexuality. Derrick has a YouTube channel in which he teaches other men how to survive in the backwoods ... and obsesses about the young woman he's stalking. Pat is a MGTOW (“Men Going Their Own Way”) who teaches incels how to find happiness in a solitary lifestyle. When Tom and Derrick turn violent, can Pat convince them to put down their guns? Written by Ruth Zamoyta. Directed By Kim T. Sharp.
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7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Making Murals


An artist talk with muralist, illustrator and program alumnus Katie Yamasaki, in conjunction with the exhibition Katie Yamasaki, Muralist.
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. Featuring: Celia Weiss Bambara, Jana Schmeuck Jessica Roseman The System Collective
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7:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Great Small Works: 30 Years of Visual Storytelling


Jenny Romaine is a director, designer, puppeteer and co-founder of the visual theater collective Great Small Works. This talk will feature a selection of images and stories from 30 years of projects and processes exploring visual storytelling adornment, fesitval and flamboyant aesthetics as a method for building power.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This is an introductory meditation classes were featured in New York Magazine’s top picks (4 stars). Each session is intended to stand alone, attendence at previous sessions is not required. Room is set up with both meditation floor mats and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Lecture | The Limits of Diversifying the Field in Filmmaking


Danielle Jackson, co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, has worked with leading photographers, filmmakers and cultural institutions to develop projects, partnerships and initiatives for social impact. Highly regarded as a writer on photography, her talk will focus on the limits of diversifying the field in an age of fragmented media.
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Concert | Voices and Piano


Peter Ablinger and Eric Wubbels will perform selections from Peter Ablinger's ground-breaking Voices and Piano series. The highlight of the evening is the world premiere performance of the newest addition to the series, a work using the voice of American performance artist Diamanda Galás. Voices and Piano is an extensive cycle of pieces for recorded voice - usually a well-known celebrity - and piano. Begun in 1998, Ablinger's cycle continues to be a work in progress and will ultimately include about 80 pieces/voices (around four hours of music). The voices are taken from speeches, interviews or readings, and rather than an accompaniment, the piano part serves as a commentary on the spoken text. In addition to the premiere of Diamanda Galás, the program will include pieces with the voices of Agnes Martin, Mila Haugová, Ezra Pound, Nina Simone, Setsuko Hara, Hanna Schygulla, Cecil Taylor, and Roman Opalka. Peter Ablinger has been guest conductor of 'Klangforum Wien', 'United Berlin' and the 'Insel Musik Ensemble’. Since 1990 Peter Ablinger has worked as a freelance musician. 2012 he became a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin. 2012-2017 he was research professor at the University of Huddersfield. Eric Wubbels is a composer and pianist, and a Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble. As a performer, he has given U.S. and world premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, Beat Furrer, George Lewis, and Mathias Spahlinger.
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Talk | Taste of Science Presents: Flu Season!


Achoo! If you’re not feeling too under the weather, come to an evening all about influenza. Learn about how researchers trace flu pandemics back to their animal sources, and about efforts to generate a universal flu vaccine. Play a trivia game and win special flu-related prizes!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Works By Pioneering Women Composers Of The 20th Century


Program Vivian Fine (U.S., 1913-2000) Florence Price (U.S., 1887-1953) Young-ja Lee (Korea, b. 1931) Priaulx Rainier (South Africa/U.K./France, 1903-86) Mary Lou Williams (U.S., 1910-81) This event is co-curated by Odaline de la Martinez and Joel Sachs. Composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez has conducted several leading ensembles around the world, including the Ensemble 2e2m in Paris; the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; the Australian Youth Orchestra; the OFUNAM and the Camerata of the Americas in Mexico; and the Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. Joel Sachs has conducted orchestras and ensembles in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, El Salvador, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and has held new music residencies in Berlin, Shanghai, London, Salzburg, Curitiba (Brazil), Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (U.K.), Helsinki, and the Banff Centre (Canadian Rockies).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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